For other uses, see Children of Paradise (disambiguation).
Children of Paradise
Directed by
Marcel Carné
Written by
Jacques Prévert
Produced by
Raymond Borderie Fred Orain
Starring
Arletty Jean-Louis Barrault Pierre Brasseur Marcel Herrand Pierre Renoir
Cinematography
Roger Hubert
Edited by
Henri Rust
Music by
Maurice Thiriet Joseph Kosma (pantomime)
Distributed by
Pathé Consortium Cinéma
Release date
9 March 1945 (1945-03-09)
Running time
190 minutes
Country
France
Language
French
Box office
4,768,505 admissions (France)[1]
Children of Paradise (original French title: Les Enfants du Paradis) is a two-part French romantic drama film by Marcel Carné, produced under war conditions in 1943, 1944, and early 1945 in both Vichy France and Occupied France. Set in the theatrical world of 1830s Paris, it tells the story of a courtesan and four men — a mime, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat — who love her in entirely different ways.
It has received universal critical acclaim. "I would give up all my films to have directed Les Enfants du Paradis", said nouvelle vague director François Truffaut. In Truman Capote's The Duke in His Domain (1957), actor Marlon Brando called it "maybe the best movie ever made".[2][3] Its original American trailer positioned it as the French answer to Gone With the Wind (1939),[4] an opinion shared by critic David Shipman.[5] A 1995 vote by 600 French critics and professionals named it the "Best Film Ever".[citation needed]
^French box office in 1945 at Box office story
^[1] Children of Paradise, the work of a poet and a maestro (in French)
^Capote, Truman (9 November 1957). "The Duke in His Domain". The New Yorker. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
^Original trailer, available on the Criterion Collection DVD edition.
^David Shipman The Story of the Cinema: Volume 2: From "Citizen Kane" to the Present Day, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984, p.644
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