Thieves and love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Thieves and love |
| Original title | Battement de coeur |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1940 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Henri Decoin |
| script |
Michel Duran (dialogues), Max Kolpé , Jean Vilhelme (Hans Wilhem) |
| production | Gregor Rabinovitch |
| music | Paul Misraki |
| camera |
André Germain Robert Lefebvre |
| cut | René Le Hénaff |
| occupation | |
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Thieves and love (alternative title Herzklopfen , original title Battement de cœur ) is a French feature film by Henri Decoin from 1940 , in which Danielle Darrieux and Claude Dauphin play the leading role.
action
In Paris in the 1930s, the young orphan Alette escapes from a reformatory ; on her escape, she ends up in a Parisian school for pickpockets . She meets Monsieur Aristide who teaches her the art of pickpocketing. When she wants to try her craft on an ambassador of all people and is caught doing it, Arlette forces her to make a deal: he doesn't betray her and instead uses her skills to get a compromising photo of his wife and her alleged lover. At a ball she is supposed to steal the pocket watch of the young attaché Pierre. It is only when she opens the watch that she realizes the dimension of theft. The pocket becomes a thief of the heart.
background
The film was produced by Continental Films . Shooting started in 1939; work on the film was then interrupted in 1940 when the war broke out.
Reviews
"The script is not without ideas, the dialogues are not without humor, but the whole thing is content with mediocrity."
Noël Burch and Geneviève Sellier wrote: Julien Duvivier's play in the films Pépé le Moko (1936) and in Henri Decoin's Battement de coeur (1939) determined the pattern of dry humor in French films during the occupation period.
Web links
- Thieves and love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Battement de cœur at Cinema Francais