Les Travailleurs de la mer (1918) (1997 restoration La Cinémathèque française)

André Antoine: Les Travailleurs de la mer (FR 1918). Collection Jean-Pierre Berthomé.

/ / FR / 1918 / Antoine / / drama

Travailleurs de la mer, Les / Havets arbetare. PC: S.C.A.G.L. D+SC: Antoine – based on the novel (1866) by Victor Hugo, in English Toilers of the Sea, in Finnish Meren ahertajat. DP: Paul Castanci, René Guichard. CAST: Romuald Joubé, Andrée Brabant, Armand Tallier. 35 mm restored tinted from La Cinémathèque française. 1854 m /18 fps/ 90’. Rehearsed Finnish earphone translation by Lena Talvio. Synthetizator accompaniment by Johannes Raumonen. Viewed in Helsinki, SEA, Orion, Sunday 19 October 1997. *** Good solid drama made vigorous by real location shooting by the wild ocean. The photography is exquisite, and the film archives made a good job in rescuing the film that was on the border of extinction.

Also filmed by Raoul Walsh as Sea Devils (US 1953) with Rock Hudson and Yvonne De Carlo.

Henry de Hem: Les Travailleurs de la mer (FR 1866). Gravure sur bois. Illustration de périodique. Maison de Victor Hugo - Hauteville House. 2017.0.2965.2. Paris Musées: Les Travailleurs de la mer.