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Hotel du Nord (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Hôtel du Nord
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
92 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1938 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Marcel Carné

Written By:
Eugène Dabit
Jean Aurenche

Actors:
Annabella ..... Renée
Jean-Pierre Aumont ..... Pierre
Louis Jouvet ..... Monsieur Edmond
Arletty ..... Raymonde
Paulette Dubost ..... Ginette
Andrex ..... Kenel
André Brunot ..... Emile Lecouvreur
Henri Bosc ..... Nazarède
Marcel André ..... Le chirurgien
Bernard Blier ..... Prosper
Jacques Louvigny ..... Munar
Armand Lurville ..... Le commissaire (as Lurville)
Jane Marken ..... Louise Lecouvreur
Génia Vaury ..... L' infirmière
François Périer ..... Adrien

Synopsis:

A complex plot revolves around the family run 'Hotel Du Nord', located along the Canal Saint-Martin Canal in Paris. A young couple arrives and books one night having decided to kill themselves in a suicide pact. However the young man, Pierre, drops the gun and takes flight after taking the first shot at Renee, who survives and takes employment at the hotel as a chambermaid. Meanwhile the stories of a pimp and a prostitute and the various patrons and staff become interwoven in true French style.

Hotel du Nord was the second in Marcel Carne's trio of 'fatalistic romantic melodramas', bracketed on either side by Quai des Brumes and Le Jour se Leve. Star-crossed lovers Annabella and Jean-Pierre Aumont draw up a suicide pact, making their fatal rendezvous at the Hotel du Nord. Aumont shoots Annabella, but loses his nerve when time comes to take his own life. Seedy criminal Louis Jouvet and his mistress Arletty help Aumont to escape the authorities-but he can't very well run away from himself. Happily, Annabella recovers from her wounds and forgives the repentant Aumont. Fate, however, has other things in store for the tormented hero, as elucidated by the grimly ironic ending.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 04 April, 2009.

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