Pépé le Moko
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Pépé le Moko ([pe.pe lə mo.ko]) is a 1937 French film directed by Julien Duvivier starring Jean Gabin, based on a novel of the same name by Henri La Barthe and with sets by Jacques Krauss. An example of the 1930s French movement known as poetic realism, it recounts the trapping of a gangster on the run in Algiers, who believes that he is safe from arrest in the Casbah.
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Directed by | Julien Duvivier |
Screenplay by | Julien Duvivier Henri La Barthe Jacques Constant (adaptation) Henri Jeanson (dialogue) |
Based on | Pépé le Moko 1937 novel by Henri La Barthe |
Produced by | Raymond Hakim Robert Hakim |
Starring | Jean Gabin |
Cinematography | Marc Fossard Jules Kruger |
Edited by | Marguerite Beaugé |
Music by | Vincent Scotto Mohamed Ygerbuchen |
Distributed by | Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn (USA, 1941) The Criterion Collection (Region 1 DVD, 2004) |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
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