Originally released as a motion picture in 1938. Based on the novel by Eugène Dabit. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack ; new conversation with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie) and journalist Phillpe Morisson ; television program from 1972 on the making of the film ; documentary from 1994 on the life and career of director Marcel Carné ; new English subtitle translation ; plus an essay by film and theater scholar Edward Baron Turk. Louis Jouvet, Annabella, Arletty, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Annabella.
Summary:
Anguished young lovers, fallen women, wanted criminals, and all manner of social castoffs: these are the disreputable denizens of the Hôtel du Nord, an atmospherically seedy boardinghouse on the bustling banks of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, whose lives collide in Marcel Carné's bittersweet rhapsody of romance, betrayal, revelry, and violence. -- Container.
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