A Day in the Country
Synopsis
Monsieur Dufour (André Gabriello), a shop-owner from Paris, takes his family to spend a day in the country, where they meet two young men, Henri (Georges D'Arnoux) and Rodolphe (Jacques B. Brunius). While Dufour and his young daughter's fiancé, Anatole (Paul Temps), go fishing, Madame Dufour (Jane Marken), his wife, and Henriette (Sylvia Bataille), his daughter, go off with the two strangers. Madame Dufour enjoys a care-free fling with Rodolphe, and Henriette and Henri row to a secluded island and engage in a romance.
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Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Les Films du Panthéon
- Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films du Jeudi
- French distribution : Panthéon Distribution
Full credits (12)
- Executive Producer : Pierre Braunberger
- Assistant directors : Jacques Becker, Yves Allégret, Luchino Visconti, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Claude Heymann, Jacques B. Brunius
- Author of original work : Guy de Maupassant
- Producer : Pierre Braunberger
- Sound Recordist : Joseph De Bretagne
- Screenwriter : Jean Renoir
- Director of Photography : Claude Renoir
- Editor : Marguerite Houllé-Renoir
- Music Composer : Joseph Kosma
- Production Designer : Robert Gys
- Still Photographer : Eli Lotar
- Production Manager : Jacques B. Brunius
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1936
- French release : 08/05/1946
- Runtime : 40 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 3953
- Visa issue date : 21/03/1946
- Approval : Unknown
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
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The film is based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, who was a friend of Renoir's father Auguste Renoir. Future leading directors Jacques Becker and Luchino Visconti worked as Renoir's assistant directors. Partie de campagne was shot in July, soon after France had elected the Popular Front government, and employers had negotiated the Matignon agreement, providing wage increases, 40-hour weeks, trade union rights, paid holidays and improved social services.
The film was not released until 1946, ten years after it was shot. Renoir never finished the filming due to weather problems, but the producer, Pierre Braunberger, turned the material into a release after World War II.
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