Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

Boudu Saved from Drowning
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  • Genre: Comedy
  • Running time: 84 min
  • Premiere: 11th of November 1932

Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family decides to take in the irrepressible bum, and he shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations. With Boudu Saved from Drowning, legendary director Jean Renoir takes advantage of a host of Parisian locations and the anarchic charms of his lead actor to create an effervescent satire of the bourgeoisie.

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Cast

Michel Simon
as Priape Boudu
Jane Pierson
as Rose, la Voisine (uncredited)
Jean Dasté
as L'Étudiant
Charles Granval
as Édouard Lestingois
Jacques Becker
as Le Poète (uncredited)
Georges D'Arnoux
as Un Invité à la Noce (uncredited)
Marcelle Hainia
as Emma Lestingois
Geneviève Cadix
as la petite fille
Sévérine Lerczinska
as Chloë Anne Marie, la Bonne
Régine Lutèce
as la jeune femme au chien perdu

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