The Red Inn
| The Red Inn | |
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 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Claude Autant-Lara |
| Written by | Jean Aurenche Pierre Bost Claude Autant-Lara |
| Produced by | Simon Schiffrin |
| Starring | Fernandel Françoise Rosay Julien Carette |
| Cinematography | André Bac |
| Edited by | Madeleine Gug |
| Music by | René Cloërec |
Production company | Memnon Films |
| Distributed by | Cocinor |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
The Red Inn (French: L'auberge rouge) is a 1951 French comedy crime film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Fernandel, Françoise Rosay and Julien Carette. It premiered on 19 October 1951.[1] A remake of the film, directed by Gérard Krawczyk, premiered in 2007.[2]
Plot
[edit]Set in 1833, it tells the story of how a monk visits the inn l'Auberge rouge in Peyrebeille, where the innkeeper confesses to a number of serious sins. The film is based on the actual crime case of the Peyrebeille Inn.
Production
[edit]The film was originally supposed to be an adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's 1831 short story The Red Inn ("L'auberge rouge"), as part of the commemoration to mark a hundred years since Balzac's death. When the financing encountered problems and took longer than expected, the filmmakers decided to keep the title, but change the project into a treatment of the events of the Auberge rouge in Peyrebeille, which are unrelated to Balzac's story.[3]
The story had been filmed twice before, as a 1910 French silent film adapted by Abel Gance, and later as a 1923 film directed by Jean Epstein, with both of those earlier versions sticking much closer to the original story.[4]
It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy.
Cast
[edit]- Fernandel as the monk
- Françoise Rosay as Marie Martin
- Marie-Claire Olivia as Mathilde
- Jean-Roger Caussimon as Dauvin
- Nane Germon as Elisa
- Jacques Charon as Rodolphe
- Julien Carette as Pierre Martin
- Grégoire Aslan as Barbeuf
- Andrée Viala as La Marquise De La Roche de Glun
- Didier D'yd as Janou
- Lud Germain as Fétiche
- Robert Berri as Le Cocher
- André Cheff as Le dandy
- André Dalibert as le bûcheron
- Manuel Gary as Un gendarme
- René Lefevre-Bel as Un gendarme
References
[edit]- ^ "L'auberge rouge (1951)". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2014-09-10.
- ^ "L'auberge rouge (2007)". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2014-09-10.
- ^ "Anecdotes du film L'auberge rouge". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2014-09-10.
- ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 267. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
Bibliography
[edit]- Leahy, Sarah & Vanderschelden, Isabelle. Screenwriters in French cinema. Manchester University Press, 2021.
External links
[edit]- The Red Inn at IMDb
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- 1951 films
- Films set in 1833
- Films set in France
- 1950s crime comedy films
- 1950s historical comedy films
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- French crime comedy films
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- French historical comedy films
- Films with screenplays by Jean Aurenche
- Films with screenplays by Pierre Bost
- French black-and-white films
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- 1950s French films
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- French-language crime comedy films
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