Boudu Saved from Drowning
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Boudu Saved from Drowning (French: Boudu sauvé des eaux) is a 1932 French film, directed by Jean Renoir. Renoir wrote the film's screenplay with Albert Valentin, from the play by René Fauchois. Léo Daniderff composed the score. The film stars Michel Simon as Boudu.
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[edit] Plot summary
After well-to-do bookseller Edouard Lestingois (Charles Granval) rescues a tramp, Boudu, from a suicidal plunge into the Seine, his family adopts the bum and dedicates itself to reforming him. Boudu (Michel Simon) shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts and seducing them with his anarchic charm.
[edit] Cast
- Michel Simon - Priape Boudu
- Marcelle Hainia - Emma Lestingois
- Sévérine Lerczinska - Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne
- Jean Gehret - Vigour
- Max Dalban - Godin
- Jean Dasté - L'étudiant
- Charles Granval - Édouard Lestingois (as Charles Granval Sociétaire de la Comédie Française)
- Jacques Becker - Le poète (uncredited)
- Georges D'Arnoux - Un invité à la noce (uncredited)
- Régine Lutèce - La promeneuse (uncredited)
- Jane Pierson - Rose, la voisine (uncredited)
[edit] Remake
The film was remade in 1986 for an American audience as Down and Out in Beverly Hills, directed by Paul Mazursky. Another remake, Boudu, was released in 2005. Gérard Jugnot directed, from a screenplay by Philippe Lopes-Curval. It starred Gérard Depardieu as Boudu. The 2005 remake is seen as inferior to the original film directed by Jean Renoir by critics.
[edit] External link
- Boudu Saved from Drowning at the Internet Movie Database
- Criterion Collection essay by Christopher Faulkner
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