Return to Life
Synopsis
Four top French filmmakers were involved in the "omnibus" feature Retour a la Vie. The film offers four separate stories, each involving a liberated prisoner of war. The first episode, directed by Andre Cayatte, finds a wealthy old woman (O. Revinsky), unhinged by her prison-camp experiences, trying to cope with greedy relatives who voraciously wait for her to die. The second story, directed by Jean Dreville, stars Francois Perrier as a bartender who goes to work in a hotel for American military women. Director Henri-Georges Clouzot helmed the third episode, in which a crippled, half-crazed ex-inmate (Louis Jouvet) has a tense confrontation with a former Gestapo chief. The last installment, directed by Georges Lampin, is the comic tale of a nebbishy returnee (Noel Noel) who causes an uproar when he brings his German war bride home.
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Credits
Directors (4)
Actors (46)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Kleber Film
- Film exports/foreign sales : Newen Connect a TF1 Group Company
- French distribution : Filmsonor Marceau
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Jacques Roitfeld
- Screenwriters : Charles Spaak, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Ferry, Noël-Noël
- Directors of Photography : Nicolas Hayer, Louis Page, René Gaveau
- Music Composer : Paul Misraki
- Editors : Léonide Azar, Claude Ibéria, Boris Lewin, Monique Kirsanoff
- Sound Recordist : Antoine Petitjean
- Production Manager : Constantin Geftman
- Production Designer : Max Douy
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Anthology film
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1949
- French release : 14/11/1949
- Runtime : 2 h
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 8116
- Visa issue date : 14/09/1949
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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