Hôtel du Nord (film)

Movie
German title	Hôtel du Nord
Original title	Hôtel du Nord
Country of production	France
original language	French
Publishing year	1938
length	95 minutes
Rod
Director	Marcel Carné
script	Jean Aurenche , Henri Jeanson
production	Jean Lévy-Strauss
music	Maurice Jaubert
camera	Louis Née , Armand Thirard
cut	Marthe Gotte
occupation
Annabella : Renée Jean-Pierre Aumont : Pierre Louis Jouvet : Mr. Edmond Arletty : Raymonde Paulette Dubost : Ginette Andrex: Kenel André Brunot : Émile Lecouvreur Jane brands : Louise Lecouvreur Henri Bos : Nazarède Marcel André : surgeon Bernard Blier : Prosper Jacques Louvigny : Munar Armand Lurville : Commissioner

Hôtel du Nord is a film based on the novel by Eugène Dabit and directed by Marcel Carné in 1938 . This film belongs to the drama genre .

action

The Lecouvreur couple bought a small, run-down hotel in the north-east of Paris (on the St. Martin Canal ) at great financial risk . Shady characters live in the hotel, but simple workers also come and go in the hotel or live here. The couple will soon become the focal point at which the paths of all people associated with the hotel cross.

criticism

“The film is more melodramatic and less original than Carné's 'big' films from the 1930s. It is true that there are again masterful scenes in the description of everyday life in the hotel, the marginal figures are vividly portrayed with just a few lines; the actual plot, however, is overgrown with sentimental feelings. "

- Reclam's film guide :

“This Marcel Carné film is more sentimental than ' Harbor in the Fog ', but the great character drawings, the excellent actors and the authenticity of the milieu make 'Hôtel du Nord' one of the most important films of 'poetic realism' in French film of the thirties. "

- Lexicon of international film :

background

Eugène Dabit, who wrote the novel for this film in 1931, tells the story of his parents in an almost autobiographical manner.

The Hôtel du Nord had its world premiere on December 19, 1938 in Paris . It was released in German cinemas in 1948 and was first seen on German television on September 28, 1964.

Location

Since the original location was an important transhipment point, Carné went to the Billancourt film studios , where Alexandre Trauner recreated the entire district.

literature

• Eugène Dabit: Hôtel du Nord . Denoel, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-07-038245-1 .
• Eugène Dabit: Hôtel du Nord . Dtv, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-12885-2 .

Web links

Commons : Hôtel du Nord  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hôtel du Nord in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Reclam's film guide . 2nd edition 1973, ISBN 3-15-010205-7
2. ^ Hôtel du Nord. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .  
3. ↑ Tilman Krause : Stay in the City of Still , in: Die Literäre Welt , April 11, 2015, p. 8