Daybreak
Synopsis
Francois, a sympathetic factory worker, kills Valentin with a gun. He locked himself in his furnished room and starts remembering how he was led to murder. He met once Francoise, a young fleurist, and they fell in love. But Francoise was gotten round by Valentin, a dog trainer, a machiavellian guy...
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- Executive Producer : Productions Sigma
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : Les Films Vog
Full credits (12)
- Adaptation : Jacques Prévert
- Screenwriter : Jacques Viot
- Dialogue Writer : Jacques Prévert
- Directors of Photography : Philippe Agostini, Curt Courant, André Bac, Albert Viguier
- Music Composer : Maurice Jaubert
- Assistant Director : Pierre Blondy
- Editor : René Le Hénaff
- Sound Recordist : Antoine Petitjean
- Costume designer : Boris Bilinsky
- Producer : Jean-Pierre Frogerais
- Production Designer : Alexandre Trauner
- Still Photographer : Raymond Voinquel
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Murder
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
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Le Jour se lève was released in France in June 1939 and shown in the US the following year. In France, however, the film was banned in 1940 by the Vichy government on the grounds it was demoralizing and had contributed to the nation's defeat.[1] After the war's end, the film was shown again to wide acclaim.
In 1947, it was again suppressed when RKO Radio Pictures wanted to remake the film in Hollywood (as The Long Night). The company acquired the distribution rights of the French film and sought to buy up and destroy every copy of the film that they could obtain. For a time it was feared that that they had been successful and that the film was lost, but it re-appeared in the 1950s and has subsequently stood alongside Les Enfants du paradis as one of the finest achievements of the partnership of Carné and Prévert.
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