Boudu Saved from Drowning
Synopsis
Bourgeois Parisian, Latin Quarter bookseller, Edouard Lestingois, (Charles Granval), rescues a tramp, Boudu, from a suicidal plunge into the river Seine, from the Pont des Arts. Boudu is brought into Lestingois' household. The family adopts the man and dedicates itself to reforming him into a proper middle class person. Boudu (Michel Simon) shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound manners of his hosts and seduces not only the housemaid but also Madame Lestingois herself. Gradually Boudu is tamed, shaved and given a haircut, and put in a suit. Then he wins a large sum of money on the lottery, and is guided into marrying the housemaid. Finally however, at the wedding scene, Boudu capsizes a rowing boat and floats away from the wedding party, and "back to his old vagrancy, a free spirit once more."
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Credits
Director (1)
Actors (10)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producers : Les Etablissements Jacques Haïk, Sirius
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pathé Films
- French distribution : Les Etablissements Jacques Haïk
Full credits (11)
- Screenwriters : Jean Renoir, Claude Heymann, Albert Valentin
- Director of Photography : Georges Asselin
- Assistant directors : Jacques Becker, Georges Saint-Saëns
- Editors : Marguerite Houllé-Renoir, Suzanne De Troeye
- Sound Recordist : Igor B. Kalinowski
- Author of original work : René Fauchois
- Associate Producer : Michel Simon
- Production managers : Jean Gehret, Marc Le Pelletier
- Continuity supervisor : Suzanne De Troeye
- Director of Photography : Marcel Lucien
- Still Photographer : Marcel Lucien
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1932
- French release : 11/11/1932
- Runtime : 1 h 29 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 16713
- Visa issue date : 01/04/1949
- Approval : Yes
- Color type : Black & White
- Audio format : Mono
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Boudu Saved from Drowning (French: Boudu sauvé des eaux, "Boudu saved from the waters") is a 1932 French film directed by Jean Renoir. Renoir wrote the film's screenplay, from the play by René Fauchois. The film stars Michel Simon as Boudu.
Pauline Kael called it, 'not only a lovely fable about a bourgeois attempt to reform an early hippy...but a photographic record of an earlier France.'
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