Voyage Without Hope

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.

Voyage Without Hope
Directed by	Christian-Jaque
Written by	Christian-Jaque Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon Pierre Mac Orlan Georg C. Klaren
Produced by	Roger Richebé
Starring	Simone Renant Jean Marais Paul Bernard
Cinematography	Robert Lefebvre
Edited by	Jacques Desagneaux
Music by	Maurice-Paul Guillot Jean Marion
Production company	Films Roger Richebé
Distributed by	Films Roger Richebé
Release date	15 December 1943 (1943-12-15)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	France
Language	French

Synopsis

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.

Cast

• Simone Renant as Marie-Ange
• Jean Marais as Alain Ginestier
• Paul Bernard as Pierre Gohelle
• Jean Brochard as Inspector Chapelin
• Louis Salou as Inspector Sorbier
• Ky Duyen as Li-Fang
• Lucien Coëdel as Philippe Dejanin
• Marcel Maupi as Le barman
• Clary Monthal as Laura - l'habilleuse

Bibliography

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

External links

• Voyage Without Hope at IMDb