Hôtel du Nord
Anguished young lovers, fallen women, wanted criminals, and all manner of social castoffs: these are the disreputable denizens of the Hôtel du Nord, an atmospherically seedy boardinghouse on the bustling banks of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, whose lives collide in Marcel Carné’s bittersweet rhapsody of romance, betrayal, revelry, and violence. Featuring evocative production design by the famed Alexandre Trauner and a colorful ensemble cast of some of classical French cinema’s most illustrious stars—including Annabella, Louis Jouvet, and a divinely dissolute Arletty in one of her most iconic roles—Hôtel du Nord is a jewel of a film and a sublime exemplar of Carné’s celebrated poetics, imbuing working-class lives and dramas with a touching nobility.
Special Features
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New conversation between filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie) and journalist Philippe Morisson
- Television program from 1972 on the making of the film
- Documentary from 1994 on the life and career of director Marcel Carné
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film and theater scholar Edward Baron Turk
New illustration by Karolis Strautniekas
Special Features
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New conversation between filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie) and journalist Philippe Morisson
- Television program from 1972 on the making of the film
- Documentary from 1994 on the life and career of director Marcel Carné
- Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film and theater scholar Edward Baron Turk
New illustration by Karolis Strautniekas
Cast
- Annabella
- Renée
- Jean-Pierre Aumont
- Pierre
- Louis Jouvet
- Monsieur Edmond
- Arletty
- Madame Raymonde
- André Brunot
- Émile Lecouvreur
- Jane Marken
- Louise Lecouvreur
- Bernard Blier
- Prosper Trimault
- Paulette Dubost
- Ginette Trimault
- Andrex
- Kenel
- Henri Bosc
- Nazarède
- François Périer
- Adrien
- René Alié
- Marcel
Credits
- Director
- Marcel Carné
- Written by
- Henri Jeanson
- Written by
- Jean Aurenche
- Based on the novel by
- Eugène Dabit
- Produced by
- Joseph Lucachevitch
- Cinematography by
- Armand Thirard
- Sound by
- Marcel Courmes
- Production design by
- Alexandre Trauner
- Costumes by
- Lou Tchimoukov
- Edited by
- Marthe Gottié
- Edited by
- René Le Hénaff
- Music by
- Maurice Jaubert
A scene from Hôtel du Nord
