# Port of Shadows (1938)

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**Original title**: *Le quai des brumes*
**Runtime**: 93 min
**Genres**: Romance, Drama, Crime
**Directed by**: Marcel Carné
**Written by**: Jacques Prévert
**Starring**: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Brasseur, Édouard Delmont, Raymond Aimos

> *Tender... frankly adult. Filled with almost every emotion known to man*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A deserter hitchhikes toward Le Havre, hoping to vanish into the fog. The city’s vices and affections ambush him before the docks even appear. Its fatalism lingers longer than the mist.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, bittersweet, outsider, slow-burn

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