Summary
Paris, 1939. A group of impoverished students open a restaurant
in the Latin Quarter, and give each other moral and material support,
assisted by their kindly landlord Père Heurteloup. One
day, one of the students, Claudie, returns with a destitute young woman
named Geneviève and she is soon accepted as part of the
group. Two of the students, the group’s treasurer Bob and a
sculptor named Jacques, take a liking to Geneviève, but then war
is declared. In the ensuing tumult, Bob goes missing and Jacques
returns, now a blind man...
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
© Willems Henri (Brussels, Belgium)
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Credits
- Director: André Berthomieu
- Script: Marcel Lasseaux, André Obey
- Photo: Jean Bachelet
- Music: Roger-Roger, Maurice Thiriet
- Cast: Michèle Alfa (Geneviève), Jean-Louis Barrault (Jacques Martin), Henri Vidal (Bob), Gaby André (Simone), Pierre Larquey (Heurteloup), Claire Jordan (Claudie), Alice Tissot (Madame Robinot), Lydie Vallois (Jeanine), Cynette Quero (Hélène), Mia Delphie (Monique), Solange Delporte (Odette), René Fluet (Pierre), Yves Furet (Hugues), Manuel Gary (Roland), Anne Iribe (Yvette), Albert Morys (François), Michèle Berger, Henri de Livry, Robert Didry, Jacques Dynam, Roland Fersen, Bernard La Jarrige, Annie Lancel, Marie Leduc, Jacques Munier, Georges Patrix, José Quaglio, Pierre Ringel, Millette Rorest, Marie-Thérèse Teng, Charles Texier, Roger Vincent, Marcel Mouloudji (Un étudiant), Simone Signoret (Une étudiante)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: France:95 min; B&W
- Aka: Angel of the Night
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