Les visiteurs du soir [videorecording] / une film de Marcel Carné ; scénario original et dialogues de Jacques Prévert et Pierre Laroche ; une production André Paulvé.
Arletty, Marie Déa, Fernand Ledoux, Alain Cuny, Marcel Herrand, Jules Berry. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1942. Special features: L'aventure des "Visiteurs du soir," a 2009 documentary on the making of the film; trailer; booklet with an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson.
Summary:
A lyrical medieval fantasy from the French director Marcel Carne. Two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: Human love. Often interpreted as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France, during which it was made.
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