The Stranger

The Stranger is set in 1930s Algiers, in the world of Albert Camus's novel, and Luchino Visconti follows Arthur Meursault (Marcello Mastroianni), a man who feels cut off from everyone around him. He takes up with Marie Cardona (Anna Karina) and drifts through his days with little reaction to anything. Then a sudden killing puts him before a prosecutor and a judge, and every word he speaks in his own defense is at risk of damning him.