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The Red Inn

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The Red Inn
Theatrical release poster
Directed byClaude Autant-Lara
Written byJean Aurenche
Pierre Bost
Claude Autant-Lara
Produced bySimon Schiffrin
StarringFernandel
Françoise Rosay
Julien Carette
CinematographyAndré Bac
Edited byMadeleine Gug
Music byRené Cloërec
Production
company
Memnon Films
Distributed byCocinor
Release date
  • 19 October 1951 (1951-10-19)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

The Red Inn (French: L'auberge rouge) is a 1951 French comedy crime film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Fernandel, Françoise Rosay and Julien Carette. It premiered on 19 October 1951.[1] A remake of the film, directed by Gérard Krawczyk, premiered in 2007.[2]

Plot

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Set in 1833, it tells the story of how a monk visits the inn l'Auberge rouge in Peyrebeille, where the innkeeper confesses to a number of serious sins. The film is based on the actual crime case of the Peyrebeille Inn.

Production

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The film was originally supposed to be an adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's 1831 short story The Red Inn ("L'auberge rouge"), as part of the commemoration to mark a hundred years since Balzac's death. When the financing encountered problems and took longer than expected, the filmmakers decided to keep the title, but change the project into a treatment of the events of the Auberge rouge in Peyrebeille, which are unrelated to Balzac's story.[3]

The story had been filmed twice before, as a 1910 French silent film adapted by Abel Gance, and later as a 1923 film directed by Jean Epstein, with both of those earlier versions sticking much closer to the original story.[4]

It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "L'auberge rouge (1951)". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2014-09-10.
  2. ^ "L'auberge rouge (2007)". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2014-09-10.
  3. ^ "Anecdotes du film L'auberge rouge". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 2014-09-10.
  4. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 267. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.

Bibliography

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  • Leahy, Sarah & Vanderschelden, Isabelle. Screenwriters in French cinema. Manchester University Press, 2021.
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