L'Équipage

original title:
L'Équipage
other titles:
Flight Into Darkness
country / year of production:
France / 1935
original length:
81 min. , black/white
premiere:
genre:
melodrama
based on:
Joseph Kessel. L'Équipage. Paris: Gallimard, 1923.
director:
Anatole Litvak
film script:
Joseph Kessel , Anatole Litvak
producer:
cinematographer:
Armand Thirard
editor:
Jean-Paul Le Chanois
composer:
Jean Wiener
cast (role):
Charles Vanel (Lieutenant Maury) , Annabella (Denise) , Jean-Pierre Aumont (Herbillon) , Annabella , Jean-Pierre Aumont , Charles Vanel
more:
plot synopsis:
Lieutenant Maury, a daring pilot in World War I, is well hated by his comrades for his recklessness and his snootiness. Nonetheless he becomes friends with the young and unexperienced pilot Herbillon. Herbillion is completely devastated when he learns that the woman he just fell in love with is Maury`s neglected wife Denise. This triangle is broken up when during an airborne battle against the Germans one of the two men sacrifices his life fo the other.
keywords:
comradeship , pilot , war in the sky , women during wartime
war:
First World War (1914-1918)
literature:
remarks:
Since the film had been sucessful in Europe Litvak remade the same story only two years later under the title "The Woman I love" as his debut in Hollywood.
availability:
VHS