Gates of Paris (film)
Porte des Lilas Gates of Paris | |
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Directed by | René Clair |
Written by | Novel: René Fallet Screenplay: René Clair Jean Aurel |
Produced by | René Clair André Daven |
Starring | Pierre Brasseur Georges Brassens Henri Vidal Dany Carrel |
Cinematography | Robert Lefebvre |
Edited by | Louisette Hautecoeur |
Music by | Georges Brassens |
Distributed by | Cinédis (France) Lopert Pictures Corporation (U.S.) |
Release dates |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Countries | France Italy |
Language | French |
Porte des Lilas (English: Gate of Lilacs) is a 1957 French-Italian dramatic film directed by René Clair, based on René Fallet's novel La Grande Ceinture. The film is known as both Gates of Lilacs and The Gates of Paris, but was released under the latter title in the United States.[1]
Plot[]
Artiste is an unemployed impoverished man who dwells in his own, derelict house with his likewise unemployed best friend Juju. One day they come across the wanted criminal Barbier hiding in their home. Juju admires the threefold murderer, yet when he witnesses him bragging about having compromised a girl for financial benefit, his feelings turn straight into the opposite and he shoots Barbier dead.
Cast[]
- Pierre Brasseur as Juju
- Georges Brassens as Artiste
- Henri Vidal as Pierre Barbier
- Dany Carrel as Maria
- Raymond Bussières as Alphonse
- Gabrielle Fontan as Madame Sabatier
- Amédée as Paulo - a regular at the café
- Annette Poivre as Nénette
- as Paulo's friend
- Alice Tissot as the concierge
- Paul Préboist
Awards[]
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film[2] and a BAFTA Award in 1958 and won the Bodil Award for Best European Film.
See also[]
- List of submissions to the 30th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of French submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References[]
- ^ According to Ronald Bergan and Robyn Karney in the Bloomsbury Foreign Film Guide (London: Bloomsbury, 1988, p. 224) and Melissa E. Biggs (French Films, 1945–1993, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996, p. 221) the film has these two alternate English titles. The English title used on the original British release is unclear.
- ^ "The 30th Academy Awards (1958) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved 2011-10-25.
External links[]
- 1957 films
- French-language films
- 1957 drama films
- French black-and-white films
- French films
- French drama films
- Italian films
- Italian drama films
- 1950s French-language films
- Films directed by René Clair
- Unemployment in fiction
- 1950s French film stubs