Daybreak
(1939)
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Daybreak
(1939)
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| Jean Gabin | ... |
François
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Jules Berry | ... |
M. Valentin
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| Arletty | ... |
Clara
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Mady Berry | ... |
La concierge
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René Génin | ... |
Le concierge
(as Genin)
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Arthur Devère | ... |
Mr. Gerbois
(as Arthur Devere)
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René Bergeron | ... |
Le patron du café
(as Bergeron)
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Bernard Blier | ... |
Gaston
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Marcel Pérès | ... |
Paulo
(as Peres)
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Germaine Lix | ... |
La chanteuse
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Gabrielle Fontan | ... |
La vieille dame dans l'escalier
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Jacques Baumer | ... |
Le commissaire
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Jacqueline Laurent | ... |
Françoise
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Francois, a sympathetic factory worker, kills Valentin with a gun. He locked himself in his furnished room and starts remembering how he was led to murder. He met once Francoise, a young fleurist, and they fell in love. But Francoise was gotten round by Valentin, a dog trainer, a machiavellian guy... Written by Yepok
French cinema at its best. Ideas of freedom, entrapment, isolation and realism wound into a great film which is carried by Gabin from the opening scene of the murder, through flashbacks he has remembered to the amazingly brutal final shot. Gabin and Laurent in the factory near the beginning of the movie is poetic realism at its most involving.