Film Screening: Pépé le Moko – 20th Mar, 2016

Date/Time
Date(s) - 20/03/2016
3:30 pm

Location
Gurgaon Centre Gallery

Categories


pepe

20 March pepe le moko film

Initial release: January 1937  | Director: Julien Duvivier

Running time: 1h 34min | French with English subtitles

Free Entry. Open to all

Plot: Pépé le Moko, a criminal on the run from the police in metropolitan France, lives in the Casbah quarter of Algiers, where he is out of reach of the local police. Inspector Slimane seeks a way to lure Pépé out of his refuge. He sees his chance when he learns that Pépé is in love with Gaby, the mistress of a rich businessman. Slimane leads Gaby to believe that Pépé had been killed. Gaby, who was on the point of joining him in his hiding place, now agrees to stay with her rich lover. When Pépé is informed that Gaby is about to leave Algiers for good he leaves the Casbah to find her and is arrested.