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A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.
Charles Granval
- Édouard Lestingois
- (as Charles Granval 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)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaFrench audiences were outraged by Boudu's antisocial behavior to the extent that police had to be called to several theaters to restore order. In some areas the film was immediately pulled because of its polarizing effect.
- Quotes
Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne: Why have a piano if no one plays it?
Édouard Lestingois: Even so, we have a piano because we are respectable people.
- Alternate versionsThere is an Italian DVD edition of this movie, distributed by DNA Srl. The movie was re-edited with the contribution of the film history scholar Riccardo Cusin. This version is also available in streaming on some platforms. This DVD also contains another movie by Jean Renoir: Toni (1935).
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma (1994)
- SoundtracksGénérique
Performed by Raphaël
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Boudu (Michel Simon), a tramp, jumps into the Seine. He is rescued by Mr. Lestingois, a gentle and good bookseller, who gives shelter to him. Mrs. Lestingois and the maid Anne-Marie (Mr. Lestingois' mistress) are far from delighted, for Boudu is lazy, dirty and salacious...
Pauline Kael called it, "not only a lovely fable about a bourgeois attempt to reform an early hippy...but a photographic record of an earlier France." The film was remade in 1986 for an American audience as "Down and Out in Beverly Hills", directed by Paul Mazursky.
Now, I don't know that Boudu is a hippie. That might be an insult to him, and it is certainly an insult to hippies. But there's plenty of comic potential in wealthy people trying to reform the slobs of the world. This theme is addressed in other films, such as "Trading Places", and the comedy writes itself.
Pauline Kael called it, "not only a lovely fable about a bourgeois attempt to reform an early hippy...but a photographic record of an earlier France." The film was remade in 1986 for an American audience as "Down and Out in Beverly Hills", directed by Paul Mazursky.
Now, I don't know that Boudu is a hippie. That might be an insult to him, and it is certainly an insult to hippies. But there's plenty of comic potential in wealthy people trying to reform the slobs of the world. This theme is addressed in other films, such as "Trading Places", and the comedy writes itself.
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Budi spasen iz reke
- Filming locations
- Berges de la Seine, Paris, France(Exterior)
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- Gross worldwide
- $2,805
- Runtime1 hour 25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.19 : 1
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