The port bar of Marseille
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The port bar of Marseille |
| Original title | Hans le marin |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French , English |
| Publishing year | 1949 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
François Villiers , Michel Arnaud , Marcel Cravenne , Jean-Pierre Aumont (dialogues) |
| script | François Villiers |
| production |
Sacha Kamenka , André Sarrut |
| music | Joseph Kosma |
| camera |
Jean Bourgoin , Raymond Voinquel |
| cut | Henri Taverna |
| occupation | |
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The Hafenbar Marseille (Alternate title: The prostitute and her fool , original title: Hans le marin ) is in black and white twisted French crime drama of the director and screenwriter François Villiers from the year 1949 . The film is based on the novel Hans le marin by the author Edouard Peisson . The Hafenbar of Marseilles was in on 16 November 1949 Paris premiere and came into the September 28, 1951 West German cinemas. The main roles are Jean-Pierre Aumont , María Montez and Lilli Palmer .
action
The Canadian seaman Eric Martin docks in Marseille with a cargo ship . There he met the attractive animator and singer of the "Kit-Cat" club Dolores and fell in love with her. She promises him that she will wait for him until he returns from the sea. On the way back to the harbor he is robbed by the two gangsters Aimé and Victor and left behind to die. The two threaten Dolores that they would kill her if she betrayed them. When Eric regains consciousness in a hospital, he discovers that the freighter has left without him. Without papers or money he looks for Dolores, but she has disappeared. When he has recovered, he takes a job as a bouncer in a night club. One night he meets Aimé and Victor in the port area and kills Aimé in a fight. Eric meets the gypsy Tania, who hides him in a gypsy camp. There the young fortune teller takes care of him lovingly. The gypsy Pierrot got him false papers in the name of "Hans Norben". Obsessed with Dolores, however, he cannot forget her. When he has found her again, she rejects him because he means nothing to her. Enraged, he kills Dolores in an affect. Then he turns himself in to the police.
Background information
Hans le marin (in German "Hans, the sailor") is the first work of the renowned French director François Villiers, who received the Golden Globe Award for the best in 1958 for the film drama When the tide comes (L'eau vive) , among other awards foreign language film got.
In addition to Lilli Palmer, Villier's older brother Jean-Pierre Aumont and Aumont's wife, the Dominican actress María Montez, also play the leading roles .
In the United States , Hans le marin came under the title Wicked City ( German " Wicked City ") on September 5, 1951 in the local cinemas.
Reviews
The Lexicon of International Films notes that the film has a "simple plot". The “representation of the milieu of the port of Marseille” is remarkable.
Web links
- The Hafenbar of Marseille in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The port bar of Marseille in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Port Bar of Marseille in the Lexicon of International Films . Retrieved July 17, 2011