''Porte des Lilas'' (
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: ''Gate of Lilacs'') is a 1957 French-Italian
drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...
tic film directed by
René Clair
René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981), born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films in which comedy was often mingled with fantasy. He wen ...
, based on
René Fallet
René Fallet (4 December 1927 – 25 July 1983) was a 20th-century French writer.
He wrote a novel that the 1981 film '' La Soupe aux choux'' was later based on. Main novels
* ''Banlieue sud-est
In France, the term banlieue (; ) refers to a ...
's novel ''
La Grande Ceinture''. The film is known as both ''Gates of Lilacs'' and ''The Gates of Paris'', but was released under the latter title in the United States.
[According to ]Ronald Bergan
Ronald Bergan (né Ginsberg, 2 November 1937 – 23 July 2020) was a South African-born British writer and historian. He was contributor to ''The Guardian'' (from 1989) and lecturer on film and other subjects as well as the author (or co-author) ...
and Robyn Karney
Robyn Karney (4 January 1940 – 7 December 2017) was a South African-born London-based film writer and critic.
Karney was born in Cape Town, but raised in Johannesburg. A stage manager for the theatre companies of Brian Brooke and Leonard Schach ...
in the ''Bloomsbury Foreign Film Guide'' (London: Bloomsbury, 1988, p. 224) and Melissa E. Biggs (''French Films, 1945–1993'', Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996, p. 221) the film has these two alternate English titles. The English title used on the original British release is unclear.
Plot
Artiste is an unemployed impoverished man who dwells in his own, derelict house with his likewise unemployed best friend Juju. One day they come across the wanted criminal Barbier hiding in their home. Juju admires the threefold murderer, yet when he witnesses him bragging about having compromised a girl for financial benefit, his feelings turn straight into the opposite and he shoots Barbier dead.
Cast
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Pierre Brasseur
Pierre Brasseur (22 December 1905 – 16 August 1972), born Pierre-Albert Espinasse, was a French actor.
Biography
The son of actors Georges Espinasse and Germaine Brasseur, the latter a cousin of Albert Brasseur; his grandfather, Jules Br ...
as Juju
*
Georges Brassens
Georges Charles Brassens (; 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet.
As an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and a ...
as Artiste
*
Henri Vidal
Henri Vidal (26 November 1919 – 10 December 1959) was a French film actor.
Film career
Henri Lucien Raymond VidalSource Les Gens du cinéma/ref> was first noticed after he won the "Apollo of 1939" contest in Paris. He was spotted by Éd ...
as Pierre Barbier
*
Dany Carrel
Yvonne Suzanne Chazelles de Chaxel, better known as Dany Carrel, (born 20 September 1932 or 20 September 1935) is a French actress. She was born in Vietnam - then French Indochina - to French father Aimé Chazelles de Chaxel and his Vietnamese mi ...
as Maria
*
Raymond Bussières
Raymond Bussières (3 November 1907 – 29 April 1982) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1933 and 1982. He was born in Ivry-la-Bataille and died in Paris. He is buried in Marchenoir. He was married to the ac ...
as Alphonse
*
Gabrielle Fontan
Gabrielle Fontan (16 April 1873 – 8 September 1959) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 120 films between 1927 and 1959.
Selected filmography
* '' Misdeal'' (1928)
* '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (1929)
* '' The La ...
as Madame Sabatier
*
Amédée
Amédée is a French masculine forename. Notable people with the forename include:
Persons
* Amédée, stage name of Philippe de Chérisey (1923-1985), French writer, radio humorist, surrealist and actor
*Amédée Artus (1815-1892), French condu ...
as Paulo - a regular at the café
*
Annette Poivre
Annette Poivre (24 June 1917 – 2 June 1988) was a French stage and film actress.Hayward p.241 She was married to the actor Raymond Bussières with whom she sometimes co-starred. Poivre was noted for her comic performances.
Selected filmography
...
as Nénette
* as Paulo's friend
*
Alice Tissot
Alice Tissot (1 January 1890 – 5 May 1971) was a French actress.
Partial filmography
* ''Poum à la chasse'' (1908)
* ''Le devoir'' (1908)
* ' (1909)
* ' (1909)
* '' The Two Girls'' (1921)
* '' A Son from America'' (1924)
* '' Captain Rasca ...
as the concierge
*
Paul Préboist
Paul Préboist (21 February 1927 – 4 March 1997) was a French actor. He appeared in more than hundred films, mostly in supporting roles, and is best known as a comic actor.
Filmography
Theater
References
External links
*Paul Préboist ...
Awards
The film was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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and a
BAFTA Award
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in 1958 and won the
Bodil Award
The Bodil Awards are the major Danish film awards given by the Danish Film Critics Association. The awards are presented annually at a ceremony in Copenhagen. Established in 1948, it is one of the oldest film awards in Europe. The awards are given ...
for Best European Film.
See also
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References
External links
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1957 films
1957 drama films
French black-and-white films
French drama films
Italian drama films
1950s French-language films
Films directed by René Clair
Unemployment in fiction
1950s French films
1950s Italian films
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