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rue Maurice Utrillo & rue Lamarck in Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! (Julien Duvivier 1932)

25/11/2012

In a pan the film climbs the stairs that connect the rue Paul Albert with the rue Lamarck, finishing with a view of its tourist protagonists at the Hôtel 'A La Savoyarde':

Looking up from their hotel room they have a view of the Sacré Coeur :

Looking down they see the top of the staircase, and the woman that one of them has come to meet:

The stairs are still as they were, but the façade of the hotel has changed, it has lost its principal entrance, and it is no longer a hotel:

Google Maps, May 2008

For the maps in this film, see here.

For the photography in this film, see here.

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passage Cottin, 18e in I Vinti (Michelangelo Antonioni 1953) and Mata Hari agent H.21 (Jean-Louis Richard 1964)

10/3/2012

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I Vinti (Michelangelo Antonioni 1953)

The passage Cottin appears in its natural dilapidated state in Antonioni's film, made and set in 1953, but eleven years later, in Richard's film, it has to be cleaned up to represent the Paris of 1917:

Mata Hari agent H.21 (Jean-Louis Richard 1964)

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place Emile Goudeau, 18e, & rue Paul Albert, 18e - Leur Dernière Nuit (Georges Lacombe 1953) & Les Rendez-vous de Paris (Eric Rohmer 1995)

29/1/2012

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The pension where the protagonists live is in the place Emile Goudeau. It's now a TimHotel, and appears in Eric Rohmer's Les Rendez-vous de Paris (1995):

François L'Henaff, Paris en marches

The same stairs appeared in Jean Renoir's La Chienne (1931):

For other stairs in La Chienne, see an earlier escalographe post, here.

In Leur Dernière Nuit, the school where the woman works is nearby, at the bottom of the stairs rue Paul Albert:

François L'Henaff, Paris en marches

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rue André Antoine, 18e - Des Gens Sans Importance (Henri Verneuil 1956) & possibly La Chienne (Jean Renoir 1931)

19/1/2012

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These look like these stairs in Renoir's La Chienne (1931), but there isn't enough readable detail to be sure:

François L'Henaff, Paris en marches

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L'Escalographe is an occasional blog about stairways in Paris that appear in films

Bibliography

My chief work of reference is François L'Henaff's magisterial Paris en marches: les escaliers des rues de Paris, published by the APUR, and available here.
See also Dan Babineau's 2003 masters thesis on Stairs in Cinema, here.

rue Maurice Utrillo & rue Lamarck in Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! (Julien Duvivier 1932)

passage Cottin, 18e in I Vinti (Michelangelo Antonioni 1953) and Mata Hari agent H.21 (Jean-Louis Richard 1964)

place Emile Goudeau, 18e, & rue Paul Albert, 18e - Leur Dernière Nuit (Georges Lacombe 1953) & Les Rendez-vous de Paris (Eric Rohmer 1995)

rue André Antoine, 18e - Des Gens Sans Importance (Henri Verneuil 1956) & possibly La Chienne (Jean Renoir 1931)

L'Escalographe is an occasional blog about stairways in Paris that appear in films

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