Hôtel du Nord
1938 · Movie · 95 min. · France
At the family-run Hotel du Nord, a young couple check in, planning to commit a double-suicide. Pierre (Jean-Pierre Aumont) shoots his lover Renée (Annabella), but then panics and flees, leaving the gun behind. Renée survives her wound after being found by pimp Edmond (Louis Jouvet). After taking a job at the hotel as a chambermaid, Renée slowly becomes involved in the shifting allegiances and relationships between the people who live and work in the hotel. Hotel du Nord was the second in Marcel Carne's trio of "fatalistic romantic melodramas", bracketed on either side by Quai des Brumes and Le Jour se Leve.
Direction Marcel Carné
Cast Annabella · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Louis Jouvet · Arletty · Paulette Dubost · Andrex · André Brunot · Henri Bosc · Marcel André · Bernard Blier · François Périer · Jacques Louvigny · Armand Lurville · Jane Marken · Génia Vaury · René Bergeron · Dora Doll
Soundtrack Maurice Jaubert
Screenplay Jean Aurenche · Henri Jeanson · Eugène Dabit
Cinematography Armand Thirard · Louis Née
Original title Hôtel du Nord
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472 votes (FilmAffinity)
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