January 22, 2013 (XXVI:2) Jean Vigo, L’ATALANTE (1929, 89 min) Directed by Jean Vigo Scenario by Jean Guinée Adaptation by Albert Riéra and Jean Vigo Dialogue by Albert Riéra and Jean Vigo Produced by Jacques-Louis Nounez Original Music by Maurice Jaubert Cinematography by Jean-Paul Alphen, Louis Berger and Boris Kaufman Film Editing by Louis Chavance Art Direction by Francis Jourdain Lyrics by Charles Goldblatt Michel Simon…Le père Jules Dita Parlo…Juliette Jean Dasté…Jean Gilles Margaritis…Le camelot 1933 Mirages de Paris, 1933 July 14, 1933 Obsession (short), Louis Lefebvre…Le gosse 1932 L'affaire est dans le sac, 1930 Little Red Riding Hood, Maurice Gilles…Le chef de bureau 1929 The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna, 1926 Nana Raphaël Diligent…Raspoutine, le batelier Claude Aveline JEAN-PAUL ALPHEN (April 20, 1911, Paris, France – April 28, René Blech…Le garçon d'honneur 1993) has five cinematographer credits: 1947 Lo Tafhidenu Lou Bonin (documentary), 1939 The Rules of the Game (as Alphen), 1938 Fanny Clar…La mère de Juliette La Marseillaise (as J.P. Alphen), 1936 La vie est à nous, 1934 Charles Dorat…Le voleur L'Atalante (originally - uncredited)/ Paul Grimault Genya Lozinska LOUIS BERGER has no other cinematographer credits. Gen Paul…L'invité qui boite Jacques Prévert…Extra at Station BORIS KAUFMAN (August 24, 1906, Bialystok, Poland, Russian Pierre Prévert…Le voyageur pressé Empire [now Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland] – June 24, 1980, Albert Riéra New York City, New York) won a Best Cinematography Oscar, , Black-and-White for On the Waterfront (1954). Some of his JEAN VIGO (b. Jean Bonaventure de Vigo Almereyda, April 26, other 58 titles are 1970 Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, 1905, Paris, France – October 5, 1934, Paris, France, 1968 The Brotherhood, 1968 Bye Bye Braverman, 1966 The tuberculosis) directed four films: 1934 L'Atalante, 1933 Zéro de Group, 1964 The Pawnbroker, 1964 The World of Henry Orient, Conduite (short), 1931 Taris (documentary short), 1930 À propos 1963 All the Way Home, 1962 Long Day's Journey Into Night, de Nice (documentary short). 1961 Splendor in the Grass, 1959 The Fugitive Kind, 1959 That Kind of Woman, 1957 12 Angry Men, 1956 Baby Doll, 1956 MAURICE JAUBERT (January 3, 1900, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Patterns, 1954 Garden of Eden, 1954 On the Waterfront France – June 19, 1940, Azerailles, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France) (director of photography), 1940 Sérénade, 1939 Le veau gras, composed the music for 30 films, among them 1939 Fort Dolorès, 1938 Êtes-vous jalouse?, 1937 Cinderella, 1939 Daybreak, 1939 La fin du jour, 1939 Pasha's Wives, 1938 1937 L'homme sans Coeur, 1936 Oeil de lynx, detective, 1934 Le Hôtel du Nord, 1938 Port of Shadows, 1938 Les filles du Rhône, père Lampion, 1934 Zouzou, 1934 L'Atalante, 1933 Zéro de 1937 Dance Program, 1936 The Parisian Life, 1934 The Last Conduite (short), 1933 Le chemin du Bonheur, 1930 À propos de Billionaire, 1934 L'Atalante, 1933 Zéro de Conduite (short), Nice (documentary short), and 1927 Les Halles centrales (short). Vigo—L’ATALANTE—2 He is the younger brother of Russian filmmakers Dziga Vertov 5, 1934), French director and scenarist, was born in Paris, as his and Mikhail Kaufman. biographer says, “the son of undernourished parents, in a dirty little attic room full of scrawny cats.” The parents were Eugène MICHEL SIMON…Le père Jules (b. François Michel Simon, Bonaventure de Vigo, who became much better known as the April 9, 1895, Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland – May 30, 1975, militant anarchist Miguel Almereyda, and his companion and Bry-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France) appeared in 110 films, comrade Emily Cléro. Almereyda was of Spanish descent, but among them 1975 The Red Ibis, 1975 The Butcher, the Star and his nom de guerre was indirectly French, an anagram of “y a la the Orphan, 1970 The House, 1970 Let's Have a Riot, 1967 The merde”—“there is shit”—that reflected his belief in the Two of Us, 1966 Two Hours to Kill, 1964 Cyrano et d'Artagnan, revolutionary virtues of street talk. 1964 The Train, 1962 The Devil and the Ten Commandments, This passionately dedicated libertarian was repeatedly 1960 Candide, 1960 The Battle of Austerlitz, 1958 It Happened jailed from adolescence onwards for his antimilitarist and in Broad Daylight, 1956 Memories of a Cop, 1955 The revolutionary activities, but his changing political allegiances and Impossible Mr. Pipelet, 1954 At the Order of the Czar, 1954 alliances led him in time to a more moderate socialism. In 1913 Hungarian Rhapsody, 1953 Femmes de Paris, 1953 Le he became editor of the satirical daily Le Bonnet Rouge. The marchand de Venise, 1952 The Temptress, 1952 Girl with the Whip, 1951 Poison, 1950 Beauty and the Devil, 1947 Non coupable, 1946 Panic, 1943 Shop Girls of Paris, 1942 Girl of the Golden West, 1941 The King's Jester, 1941 The Story of Tosca, 1940 Love Cavalcade, 1939 Circonstances atténuantes, 1939 La fin du jour, 1939 Cocoanut, 1938 Mother Love, 1938 Boys' School, 1937 The Kiss of Fire, 1936 Le mort en fuite, 1936 Jeunes filles de Paris, 1936 Under Western Eyes, 1935 Amants et voleurs, 1934 L'Atalante, 1934 Ladies Lake, 1933 High and Low, 1932 Boudu Saved from Drowning, 1932 Baleydier, 1931 La Chienne, 1928 The Sad Sack, 1928 The Passion of Joan of Arc, 1927 The Loves of Casanova, 1925 The Vocation of André Carel, and 1924 La galerie des monstres. DITA PARLO…Juliette (b. Grethe Gerda Kornstädt, September 4, 1908, Stettin, Pomerania, Germany [now Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland] – December 12, 1971, Paris, Ile- de-France, France) appeared in 29 films, some of which were 1965 The Queen of Spades, 1950 Justice Is Done, 1940 paper grew increasingly respectable and Almereyda the starving Cristobal's Gold, 1939 Unknown of Monte Carlo, 1938 Street revolutionary became an elegant devotee of the high life, with Without Joy, 1938 The Woman of Monte Carlo, 1937 Under automobiles, mistresses and several residences. Various scandals Secret Orders, 1937 La Grande Illusion, 1934 The Kidnapping, and the machinations of political opponents led to the 1934 L'Atalante, 1933 Mr. Broadway, 1931 Honor of the Family, suppression of Le Bonnet Rouge in 1917. In August of the same 1931 Girls for Sale, 1931 Kismet, 1930 Au bonheur des dames, year Almereyda was arrested , accused of treasonous dealings 1929 Melody of the Heart, 1929 The Downpour, 1928 with the Germans, and a week later he was strangled to death Ungarische Rhapsodie, 1928 Secrets of the Orient, 1928 The with his own bootlaces in Fresnes prison. A violent debate Lady with the Mask, and 1928 Homecoming. followed, but the truth of the charges against Almereyda and the real reason for the assassination were never established. JEAN DASTÉ…Jean (b. Jean Georges Gustave Dasté, August 18, Except during his infancy, Jean Vigo had seen little of 1904, Paris, France – October 15, 1994, Saint-Étienne, Loire, his busy parents, He had spent the later part of his childhood France) appeared in 49 films, among them 1989 Noce blanche, mostly at a villa in Saint-Cloud, cared for by servants. During the 1987 Nuit docile, 1987 Sorceress, 1984 Love Unto Death, 1983 summer he often stayed at Montpellier in the south, with Gabriel The Islands, 1980 Une semaine de vacances, 1980 Mon oncle Aubès, a photographer who had married his grandmother after d'Amérique, 1978 Like a Turtle on Its Back, 1978 Molière, 1978 his grandfather died of tuberculosis. Vigo was twelve when his Utopia, 1978 The Green Room, 1977 The Man Who Loved own father died: a pale, delicate, and taciturn child, precocious in Women, 1976 Body of My Enemy, 1974 The Gray Days, 1972 his libertarian political views and his anticlericalism. Aubès, who Handsome Face, 1970 The Wild Child, 1969 Z, 1966 The War Is was fond of the boy, adopted him. It was necessary to conceal the Over, 1943 A Star to the Sun, 1941 Stormy Waters, 1938 The identity of this “son of the traitor,” and as soon as his precarious Time of the Cherries, 1937 La Grande Illusion, 1936 La vie est à health allowed, Vigo was enrolled pseudonymously at a school in nous, 1936 Under Western Eyes, 1936 The Crime of Monsieur Nimes, not far from Montpellier. Lange, 1934 L'Atalante, 1933 Zéro de Conduite (short), and 1932 In 1918, for the sake of his health, Vigo was moved to Boudu Saved from Drowning. another boarding school at Millau, in the mountains. He hated the regimentation he encountered there, and his authoritarian from World Film Directors, V. I. Edited by John Wakeman. teachers, but grew stronger. He learned to fight to defend H. L. Wilson Co NY 1987 himself, earned a reputation as a troublemaker, and made some VIGO, JEAN (BONAVENTURE DE), (April 26, 1905-October Vigo—L’ATALANTE—3 equally rebellious friends, including Georges Caussat and to use). The doll “tourists” are promptly raked in by a croupier. Jacques Bruel, who, like him, often received “Zéro for conduct.” After more aerial shots we move on to the preparations for the His vacations he spent at Montpellier with Gabriel Aubès, who carnival and views of the Promenade des Anglais, peopled with taught him photography (as he had taught Vigo’s father). Aubès old and ugly rich women. A younger woman at a terrace café was impressed by the soundness of Vigo’s eye and, having a repeatedly changes her clothes, appearing finally naked except poor opinion of photography as a career, suggested the boy might for her shoes. These opulent scenes are contrasted with the consider cinematography. patient misery and hard work of the old city–washerwomen, Vigo’s mother was living in Paris, and in 1922, at her sewers, garbage, a fingerless child.