Hôtel du Nord

Synopsis

Along the locks of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, a despondent young couple rents a room at the Hôtel du Nord to carry out a mutual suicide pact, but after shooting his lover, the young man panics and flees into the night, leaving her wounded to be looked after by a colorful underworld pimp and his fiery streetwalker mistress. Marcel Carné and Henri Jeanson's poetic realist gem starring Annabella, Louis Jouvet, and Arletty: 'Atmosphère! Atmosphère! Est-ce que j'ai une gueule d'atmosphère?!'