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Port of Desire

1958 · 86 min

A wistful, shadowed wander through a bombed-out port, where memory and longing blur into quiet heartache.

Directed by
Yves Allégret
Genres
Drama
Starring
Hildegard Knef, Daniel Gélin, Jean Lefebvre
Overview
Pierre is in Hamburg on a merchant ship with his friends Georges and Jean-Marie. While they are just looking for a good time in the twenty-four hours they have to waste in the city, Pierre is seized by the memory of a young German girl, Maria, whom he had known and probably loved when he was a prisoner of war in the bombed-out port of Hamburg. He abandons his companions in search of her, but is unable to trace her, her house having been destroyed and the search services having no record of her.

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Directed by
Yves Allégret
Genres
Drama
Starring
Hildegard Knef, Daniel Gélin, Jean Lefebvre
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • love
  • grief
  • war
  • loneliness
Places
  • big city
  • road trip
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity4
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Yves Allégret
Starring
Hildegard Knef, Daniel Gélin, Jean Lefebvre, Daniel Sorano, Frédéric O'Brady, Almuth Bock, Reinhold Nietschmann, Günther Jerschke
Music
Jean Ledrut
Cinematography
Armand Thirard
Runtime
86 min
Country
France
Languages
English, French, German

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