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Director:
Marcel Carné
Writers:
Jacques Viot (original scenario)
Jacques Prévert (dialogue)
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Release Date:
29 July 1940 (USA) more
Plot:
Francois, a sympathetic factory worker, kills Valentin with a gun. He locked himself in his furnished... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
1 nomination more
User Comments:
classic French Cinema more

Cast

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Jean Gabin ... François
Jules Berry ... M. Valentin
Arletty ... Clara
Mady Berry ... La concierge
René Génin ... Le concierge (as Genin)
Arthur Devère ... Mr. Gerbois (as Arthur Devere)
René Bergeron ... Le patron du café (as Bergeron)
Bernard Blier ... Gaston
Marcel Pérès ... Paulo (as Peres)
Germaine Lix ... La chanteuse
Gabrielle Fontan ... La vieille dame dans l'escalier
Jacques Baumer ... Le commissaire
Jacqueline Laurent ... Françoise
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Daybreak (USA)
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Runtime:
93 min | Germany:86 min | USA:88 min (Janus print) | Argentina:87 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Wide Range Sound System)
Certification:
Argentina:Atp | USA:TV-PG (TV rating) | Finland:K-16 | Germany:12 (bw) | Sweden:15
Company:
Sigma more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
M. Valentin: You're the type women fall in love with . . . I'm the type that interests them. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965) more

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classic French Cinema, 25 February 2002
Author: icklemaniac from england

French cinema at its best. Ideas of freedom, entrapment, isolation and realism wound into a great film which is carried by Gabin from the opening scene of the murder, through flashbacks he has remembered to the amazingly brutal final shot. Gabin and Laurent in the factory near the beginning of the movie is poetic realism at its most involving.

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