Port of Shadows (1938)

Original title

Le quai des brumes

Directed by

Marcel Carné

Genre

drama film, crime film, romance film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

12

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 312 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A deserter arrives in a foggy port town and falls for a young woman trapped by her circumstances. He gets entangled with local criminals and faces a doomed romance.

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What happens

Port of Shadows (French: Le Quai des brumes [lə kɛ de bʁym], "The dock of mists") is a 1938 French film directed by Marcel Carné. An example of poetic realism, it stars Jean Gabin, Michel Simon and Michèle Morgan. The screenplay was written by Jacques Prévert and based on a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan. The music score was by Maurice Jaubert. The film was the 1939 winner of France's top cinematic prize, the Prix Louis-Delluc. According to Charles O'Brien, the film is one of the earliest to be called film noir by critics (1939, France). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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