Directed by:
Robert SiodmakScreenplay:
Charles SpaakCinematography:
Eugen SchüfftanComposer:
Darius MilhaudCast:
Albert Préjean, Marcel Dalio, Gabrielle Dorziat, Robert Lynen, Pierre Renoir, Gina Manès, Ludmila Pitoëff, Lucien Coëdel, Maurice Baquet, Roger Legris (more)Plots(1)
Captain Mollenard is the captain of the freighter S.S. Minotaur and himself a bull of a man. His relationship with the shipping company that employs him is no better than the one with his wife back in Dunkirk, who is doing her best to turn his son and daughter against him. But his crew worships him and abets him in his illegal gun-running activities in Shanghai. Then a disgruntled weapons dealer sets the Minotaur ablaze. Returning to France, Mollenard and his crew are greeted as heroes, but no new ship is forthcoming. Mollenard is felled by a stroke and confined to his bed. But the old seadog has no intention of turning command over to his shrew of a wife ... (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Albert Préjean
France
Best movies:
The 3 Penny Opera (1931)
Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)
Marcel Dalio
France
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
How to Steal a Million (1966)
The Wing and the Thigh (1976)
Gabrielle Dorziat
France
Best movies:
Monsieur Vincent (1947)
Judgment of the God (1952)
The Spies (1957)
Robert Lynen
France
Pierre Renoir
France
Best movies:
Judgment of the God (1952)
Les Enfants du Paradis (1945)
Knock (1951)
Gina Manès
France
Best movies:
Napoleon (1927)
The Faithful Heart (1923)
Law of the Streets (1956)
Ludmila Pitoëff
Russian Empire
Lucien Coëdel
France
Best movies:
L'Idiot (1946)
The Charterhouse of Parma (1948)
Remorques (1941)
Maurice Baquet
France
Best movies:
The Angel (1982)
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet (1955)
Z (1969)
Roger Legris
France
Best movies:
Order of the Daisy (1967)
Port of Shadows (1938)
Blonde for Danger (1958)
Marcel Pérès
France
Best movies:
Le Glaive et la balance (1963)
Order of the Daisy (1967)
Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale (1963)
Jacques Baumer
France
Best movies:
Daybreak (1939)
The Wanton (1950)
Dear Caroline (1951)
Pierre Sergeol
France
Best movies:
Law of the Streets (1956)
An Angel on Wheels (1959)
Pierre Labry
France
Best movies:
Wooden Crosses (1932)
Confessions of a Cheat (1936)
Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942)
Arthur Devère
Belgium
Best movies:
Daybreak (1939)
Le Plaisir (1952)
Walter Rilla
German Empire
Best movies:
The Sins of Love (1929)
State Secret (1950)
Bekenntnisse des Hochstaplers Felix Krull (1957)
Robert Seller
France
Best movies:
The Story of the Fox (1930)
The American Beauty (1961)
The Reluctant Spy (1963)
Rodolphe Marcilly
France
Best movies:
Les Misérables (1958)
Witness in the City (1959)
Asterix and Cleopatra (1968)
Armand Lurville
France
Best movies:
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Gervaise (1956)
Ruy Blas (1948)