A surrealistic drama set in Paris after the liberation from the Nazis. Montand is a Resistance hero who meets a harmonica-playing vagabond. This mysterious man, who represents destiny, leads Montand to Nattier, a woman he had fallen in love with and had been searching for. Her husband is a
war profiteer and her brother a Nazi collaborator who commits suicide. A mixture of reality and mythology that didn't attract an audience at the box office, this was Carne's final collaboration with Prevert. A large-budget film, with nominal exteriors constructed within studio walls by the
talented Trauner, it lacked the
panache of the team's earlier wartime efforts made u...
Released:
1946
Rated:
NR
Length:
87 mins