Hôtel du Nord Marcel Carné [videorecording]=

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From case cover:
The Hotel du Nord is a family-run hotel on the edge of the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris. As the family is celebrating a first communion, a young couple checks in, planning a double suicide. Only one shot is fired, and the man, Pierre, flees leaving his lover, Renee, to die in the room. But, he leaves the gun behind and she survives.
Intertwined is the story of a pimp and a prostitute: Edmond and Raymonde. Edmond finds the gun and rescues Renee, who then gets a job as a chmabermaid at the hotel. Raymonde is not amused, A series of convoluted affairs between hotel patrons and staff, as well as passion-fuelled travels across France, ensue - all to end the story in perfect symmetry.
The superb attention to detail in this film led writer Graham Greene to comment: "we believe in the desperate lovers and the suicide pact on the brass bed in the shabby room, just because of the bicyclists on the quay, the pimp quarrelling with his woman in another room, and the First-Communion party."
From the director of Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), Hotel du Nord (1938) was inspired by the award-winning book (1928) by Eugène Dabit, whose parents owned the real Hotel du Nord.

From IMDb:
A young couple, Renee and Pierre, take one night a room at the Hotel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal Saint-Martin. They want to die together, but after having shooted at Renee, Pierre lacks of courage and ran away. Another customer, Monsieur Edmond, a procurer, rescues her. When Renee goes out of the hospital, she is hired as a waitress at the hotel. Monsieur Edmond falls in love with her, but Renee is still thinking of Pierre...

DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; PAL; Region 2; 1.33:1 as 4:3 fullscreen.

French audio. Optional English subtitles.