THE GATES OF THE NIGHT - Lot 306

THE GATES OF THE NIGHT A film by Marcel Carné (screenplay and dialogue by Jacques Prévert), starring Yves Montand, Serge Reggiani, and Pierre Brasseur, 1946. Vintage promotional booklet (press kit), eighteen pages (+ cover) richly illustrated with photos (in photogravure) by Aldo, Brassaï (cover), R. Forster, and Voinquel, featuring images from the film. 30.2 x 23.2 cm. A mark on the cover and a small tear along one edge. Note: A masterpiece of poetic realism, *Les Portes de la nuit* reunites Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert in the gloomy postwar Paris. Richly illustrated with photographs by Brassaï and Raymond Voinquel, among others, this promotional booklet is a remarkable historical document chronicling this classic of French cinema.