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| Jean Gabin | ... | Jean | |
| Michel Simon | ... | Zabel | |
| Michèle Morgan | ... | Nelly | |
| Pierre Brasseur | ... | Lucien | |
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Édouard Delmont | ... | Panama (as Delmont) |
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Raymond Aimos | ... | Quart Vittel (as Aimos) |
| Robert Le Vigan | ... | Le peintre (as Le Vigan) | |
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René Génin | ... | Le docteur (as Genin) |
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Marcel Pérès | ... | Le chauffeur (as Perez) |
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Jenny Burnay | ... | L'amie de Lucien |
| Roger Legris | ... | Le garçon d'hôtel (as Legris) | |
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Martial Rèbe | ... | Le client |
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Life's a rotten business, says Jean, a deserter who arrives at night in Le Havre, looking to leave the country. He lucks into civilian clothes, a little bit of money, a passport, and a dog, and he also meets Nelly, a 17-year-old who's grown up too fast. She's the object of lust of men: including a boyfriend Maurice, her putative protector Zabel, and Lucien, a local hood. Jean falls for her, faces down Lucien, and gives her courage to stand on her own feet. A ship is leaving for Venezuela; can at least one of them be on it, or is that just a dream? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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FranceLanguage:
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29 October 1939 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Was there ever a better example of Poetic Realism (no, but one just as good, Le Jour Se Leve, from the same stable)than this, crafted exquisitely by the onlie begetters of the genre, Jacques Prevert - Marcel Carne. All the ingredients are present and accounted for; low-key lighting, atmos - perm any two from drizzle, sleet, cobbles, out-of-season resorts - and two doomed lovers who come together for one Mayfly moment in the sun before it all ends in tears to the distant sound of hammers striking firing pins and the heady, pungent aroma of cordite. Did anyone, with the possible exception of Bogie, do bruised tough better than Jean Gabin and pre-Audrey Hepburn were there ever so expressive eyes as Michele Morgan brought to the party. The Prevert-Carne team were on top of their game in this one which still holds up sixty years on. Purists may quibble that 'brumes' translates as mist rather than shadows but without a shadow of a doubt this is classic fare.