Poetic realism

The Poetic Realism emerged in the French cinema and was marked by the economic crisis of the early 1930s. Driven by a lust for more realism and social criticism, returned some young directors aware of the French avant-garde back. Despite the adverse circumstances of the time and a fallow film industry succeeded in this film directors in collaboration with screenwriter Jacques Prévert and the production designer Alexandre Trauner to write film history. The Poetic realism paved the later incurred in Italy before neorealism prevail.

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" Approximately around 1935 came several directors who already were certainly no strangers, with films produced, initiated a new era of French cinema: Carné, Duvivier, Renoir your works featured a common attitude that is circumscribed only about realism. : preference for the darker side of life, sympathy for the disadvantaged, attention to social problems, especially the conflict between individual and society, situating the people in a specific environment. few films of this school, especially the Carnes, disclosed an insurmountable pessimistic attitude to life. " Ulrich Gregor, Enno Patalas: History of Film (1973 )

Significant Directors of the poetic realism as well as their most important films

  • Marcel Carné: Jenny (1936)
  • Port in the Fog ( 1938)
  • Hôtel du Nord (1938 )
  • The day is dawning (1939 )
  • Children of Paradise (1945 )
  • Under the Roofs of Paris (1930 )
  • The Million (1931 )
  • Long live freedom (1931 )
  • The Fourteenth July (1933 )
  • Pépé le Moko - In the dark of Algiers, 1936
  • La Belle équipe (1936 )
  • Day's End (1939 )
  • The Great Game (1934 )
  • The Bitch (1931 )
  • Boudu - Saved from the Water ( 1932)
  • Toni ( 1935)
  • The Crime of Mr. Lange ( 1936)
  • The Grand Illusion (1937 )
  • Human Beast (1938 )
  • Rules of the Game (1939 )
  • Conduct insufficient (1932 )
  • Atalante (1934 )
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