Carnival of Sinners
- Original title
- La main du diable
- Year
- 1943
- Running time
- 82 min.
- Country
- France
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Jean-Paul Le Chanois. Novel: Gérard de Nerval
- Cast
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- Pierre Fresnay
- Josseline Gaël
- Noel Roquevert
- Guillaume de Sax
- Pierre Larquey
- André Gabriello
- Antonio Balpetré
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- Music
- Cinematography
Armand Thirard (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Fantasy. Horror | Supernatural
- Synopsis
- A man arrives at an isolated mountain inn clutching a small box. The man is panic-struck when, during a sudden blackout, the box disappears. To the assembled guests at the inn he tells his tragic story. The man, Roland Brissot, was once a penniless artist who, one day, bought a talisman from the owner of a restaurant for one franc. The talisman, a severed hand in a box, immediately transformed Brissot’s life and he became a hugely successful artist. Then, one day, he receives a visit from a small man in a suit who tells him that in buying the talisman, he has sold his soul to the Devil...
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