Harbor in the fog
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Harbor in the fog |
| Original title | Le Quai des Brumes |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1938 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marcel Carné |
| script |
Jacques Prévert , Marcel Carné, Pierre Dumarchais (literary source) |
| production | Gregor Rabinowitsch |
| music | Maurice Jaubert |
| camera | Eugen Schüfftan |
| cut | René Le Hénaff |
| occupation | |
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Hafen im Nebel ( French : Le Quai des brumes ) is a feature film by Marcel Carné from 1938. It is based on the novel of the same name by Pierre Mac Orlan .
action
The deserted soldier Jean lets a truck driver take him to Le Havre late at night. The misty port city in Normandy should be his gateway to freedom. Hungry and looking for a place to stay for the night, he meets young Nelly in the port of old "Panama" and falls in love with her. Jean has a lucky streak, because the next day he “inherits” from a life-weary painter who went into the sea that morning, his civilian clothes, papers, money and painting utensils. He meets Nelly at the harbor and slaps the little crook Lucien, a good-for-nothing who is also after the seventeen-year-old beauty.
Jean intends to take a ship to Venezuela . Before that, he meets with Nelly at a fairground and they both spend the night in a hotel at the harbor. The next morning the newspaper came with the news that the mutilated body of Maurice, Nelly's former missing lover, had been found. Nelly now suddenly realizes that her jealous guardian Zabel Maurice killed, after all she found Maurice cufflinks under the cellar stairs of Zabel's shop and heard a scream at night. She runs to Zabel and tries with this knowledge to blackmail him not to report Jean to the police, because Zabel knows that Jean is a deserter. When Zabel tries to attack Nelly in the basement, Jean steps in and kills him in an immeasurable rage. Before he can return to the ship, Lucien shoots him in the back on the open road. Jean dies in Nelly's arms.
Film historical context
Hafen im Nebel is a prime example of poetic realism in French films of the time. The basic mood, structure and ending are strongly reminiscent of Pépé le Moko - In the Dark of Algiers by Julien Duvivier . Both films end with the death or suicide of the protagonist portrayed by Jean Gabin .
The film is one of Marcel Carné's greatest commercial successes and is one of seven films he made with Jacques Prévert and Alexandre Trauner.
Awards
Marcel Carné's film received the prestigious Louis Delluc Prize in 1939 and was awarded at the Venice Film Festival . A year later, Harbor in the Fog in the United States was named Best Foreign Film by the National Board of Review .
criticism
“One of the most compelling examples of the poetic realism of French cinema at the time. The film is less about a criminal case than about the tragic conflict between a viciously corrupt world and the individual's claim to happiness. Shot exclusively in the decor of Alexandre Trauner , it is dominated by a very stylized fatalism, which the excellent camera underlines through concentrated movements. Le Havre, poetically placed in the picture, intensely reflects the inner moods and feelings. "
“The excellent photography works realistically, but behind the convincing atmosphere a tearless, sad worldview shines through. An artistically interesting testimony to a fatalism that only briefly illuminates a delicious happiness in front of a gloomy reality. "
“Carné and Prèvert were not concerned with the criminal affair, which is burdened with numerous coincidences and improbabilities, nor with a realistic description of Le Havre. The port city becomes a dreary stage on which the failure of human efforts is exemplarily presented. [...] It is probably bitter irony that only one person can realize his dream of happiness in this film: a thief who has dreamed of sleeping in a white-covered bed for once. "
German synchronization
The German dubbing was made in 1970 on behalf of ZDF for the first television broadcast (on September 28, 1970 at 9 p.m.).
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Jean | Jean Gabin | Günter Sauer |
| Zabel | Michel Simon | Fritz Tillmann |
| Nelly | Michèle Morgan | Helga Trümper |
| Lucien | Pierre Brasseur | Reinhard Glemnitz |
| Panama | Edouard Delmont | Klaus W. Krause |
literature
- Paul Duncan, Jürgen Müller (Eds.): Film Noir, 100 All-Time Favorites , Taschen GmbH, Cologne 2014. ISBN 978-3-8365-4353-8 (pp. 70 - 77)
- Pierre Mac Orlan: harbor in the fog. Roman (OT: Le quai des brumes ). German by Jürgen Ritte. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-608-95551-8
Web links
- Port of Shadows in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harbor in the fog. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Reclams Filmführer, 3rd, arr. and exp. Edition. 1978, ISBN 3-15-010205-7
- ↑ Hafen im Nebel (FRA) (1938) in Arne Kaul's synchronous database ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved May 25, 2009
