Voyage Without Hope (French: Voyage sans espoir) is a 1943 French crime drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Simone Renant, Jean Marais and Paul Bernard. It is a remake of the 1931 film The Lovers of Midnight. It was shot at the Saint-Maurice Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Gys. It has been classified as a film noir with an opening that recalls the pre-war poetic realist film The Human Beast.[1]

Voyage Without Hope
Directed byChristian-Jaque
Written byChristian-Jaque
Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon
Pierre Mac Orlan
Georg C. Klaren
Produced byRoger Richebé
StarringSimone Renant
Jean Marais
Paul Bernard
CinematographyRobert Lefebvre
Edited byJacques Desagneaux
Music byMaurice-Paul Guillot
Jean Marion
Production
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Films Roger Richebé
Distributed byFilms Roger Richebé
Release date
  • 15 December 1943 (1943-12-15)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Synopsis

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A bank clerk steals money and plans to run off to Argentina on a freighter. On the train to the port he encounters a criminal just released from prison who takes him for a naïve, wealthy young man and persuades his old girlfriend, nightclub singer Marie-Ange, to seduce him. However, she falls in love with the essentially honest boy and as the net closes in against him from both the criminals and the law she ultimately sacrifices herself for him.

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References

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  1. ^ Walker-Morrison p.35

Bibliography

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  • Walker-Morrison, Deborah. Classic French Noir: Gender and the Cinema of Fatal Desire. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
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