The Beat Hotel (2012)
88 min
The Beat Hotel, a new film by Alan Govenar, goes deep into the legacy of the American Beats in Paris during the heady years between 1957 and 1963, when Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso fled the obscenity trials in the United States surrounding the publication of Ginsberg’s poem Howl. They took refuge in a cheap no-name hotel they had heard about at 9, Rue Git le Coeur and were soon joined by William Burroughs, Ian Somerville, Brion Gysin, and others from England and elsewhere in Europe, seeking out the “freedom” that the Latin Quarter of Paris might provide.
- Release date
- March 30, 2012
- Country of origin
- Not yet available · likely United States (estimated from cast and crew)
Cast
- Harold Chapman as Self
- Peter Golding as Self
- Oliver Harris as Self
- Kit Hussey as William Burroughs
- Nicholas Irion as Ian Sommerville
- Andrew J. Kasten as Harold Chapman
- Jason P. Kendall as Cyclops
- Jean-Jacques Lebel as Self
- Cyclops Lester as Self
- Barry Miles as Self
Crew
- Alan Govenar · Director
- Alan Govenar · Producer
- Dan Cavanagh · Composer
- Daniel Cicourel Hanley · Composer
- Didier Dorant · Cinematographer
- Robert Tullier · Cinematographer
- Alan Hatchett · Editor