Partie de campagne

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Partie de campagne

Directed by	Jean Renoir
Produced by	Pierre Brauenberger
Written by	Jean Renoir
Starring	Sylvia Bataille Georges D'Arnoux Jane Marken André Gabriello Jacques B. Brunius Paul Temps
Release date(s)	May 5, 1946
Running time	40 min.
Language	French
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Partie de campagne (English title: A Day in the Country) is a film written and directed by the French auteur Jean Renoir in 1936. The film is based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant, who was a friend of Renoir's father Auguste Renoir. Future star directors Jacques Becker and Luchino Visconti worked as Renoir's assistant directors.

Partie de campagne was released in 1946, ten years after it was shot. Renoir never finished the filming due to weather problems, but the producer, Pierre Brauenberger, turned the material into a release after World War II.

[edit] Plot

A shop-owner from Paris takes his family to spend a day in the country. There his young daughter Henriette (Sylvia Bataille) engages in a romance with Henri (Georges D'Arnoux).