the visitors of the evening is a drama of Marcel Carné carried out in 1942.

Synopsis

A couple of imps is sent by Satan on Earth in the year of grace 1485 like two ménestrels to sow misfortune and the destruction. Gilles falls in love with Anne, girl of the baron Hughes, to whom it should have brought only torments.

In the context of the occupation, the informed spectators seized the parabola of the war, the castle of the baron Hugues representing the mode of Vichy and Pétain and the devil, the Germans; the two lovers, statufiés at the end would return to Resistance.

Data sheet

• Title: visitors of the evening
• Realization: Flesh-colored Marcel (assisted by Michelangelo Antonioni)
• Scenario and dialogs: Jacques Prévert and Pierre Laroche
• Decorations and costumes: Georges Wakhevitch and Alexandre Trauner
• Music: Maurice Thiriet and Joseph Kosma
• Sound: Jacques Lebreton
• Assembly: Henri Rust
• Turning: from April at September 1942
• Production: Scalera/Discina
• Format: Black and white
• Lasted: 120 minutes (2h00)
• Coming out date: December 5th 1942

Distribution

• Arletty : Dominique

• Alain Cuny: Gilles
• Marie Déa: Anne
• Jules Berry: The devil
• Marcel Herrand: Renaud
• Fernand Ledoux: Baron Hugues
• Pierre Labry: a large lord
• Gabriel Gabrio: The torturer
• Roger Blin: The showman of dwarves
• Jean d' Yd: the bear leader.
• Pierre Piéral: a dwarf
• Madeleine Rousset: ? Louison
• Simone Signoret : a young lady of the castle
• François Chaumette: a page
• Jean Carmet: a page
• Alain Resnais: a page
• Jean-Pierre Mocky: a small page
• Janine Berry
• Claudie Casing
• Arsenio Freygnac
• Robert Hébert
• Guy Henry
• Robert Béal
• Marie-Therese Moissel
• Marcel Mouloudji
• Jacques Prévert
• Georges Saddler

Reward

• Grand Prix of the French cinema 1942.

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