Films & Directors
Du haut en bas
Filmmuseum/Synema/Filmarchiv, FR 1933, 80 min., frz.OmdU
Wednesday 18.03.
11:00, augartenkino kiz
Regie: G.W. Papst
Script: Anna Gmeyner (nach Ladislaus Bus-Feketes Stück „Penz nem, minden“; deutsch: „Geld ist nicht alles“, 1933), Dialoge: Georges Dolley
Camera: Eugen Schüfftan
Editor: Jean Oser
Sound: Georges Leblond
Music: Marcel Lattès
Props: Ernö Metzner
Costumes: Max Pretzfelder
Cast: Jean Gabin, Janine Crispin, Michel Simon, Mauricet, Wladimir Sokoloff, Margo Lion, Peter Lorre, u.a.
Producer: Georges Root
Production: Socíeté des Films Sonores Tobis
We almost feel as if we are seeing a reflection of the real situation of immigrants, the situation “of exiles collected in a location, but no longer constituting the average for the place. The figures who climb on backstairs and in alleys are no longer the representatives of static classes and levels of society, but stranded people who climb up and out, people who have been dealt a new hand.“
(Gertrud Koch)