Alain, "a young wolf", elegant and racy, is maintained by the princess Linzani. At the same time, he goes out with a girl of his age, Sylvie, who despite her bold attitude has never had a lover.
Direction
Carné's elegiac final gasp of poetic realism.
Costume
Alain's wardrobe tells his whole tragic story.
Director
Marcel Carné
Christian Hay
Alain Langlois
Haydée Politoff
Sylvie
Yves Beneyton
Jean-Emmanuel de Saint-Sever, dit Chris
Maurice Garrel
Ugo Castellini
Gamil Ratib
Prince Linzani
Stéphane Bouy
Riccione, le photographe
Bernard Dhéran
Jean-Noël
Elizabeth Teissier
Princesse Linzani
René Lefèvre-Bel
Gaston, le majordome
Élina Labourdette
Madame Sinclair
Roland Lesaffre
Albert
Muni
Irma, la femme de chambre (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Carné's 'wilderness years' when critics declared him irrelevant; the film's obscurity mirrors Alain's hollow glamour.
Haydée Politoff had just broken through in 'La Collectionneuse' — her Sylvie carries that same Rohmer-esque ambivalence about desire, now drowning in Carné's fatalism.
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