Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

Original title

Boudu sauvé des eaux

Directed by

Jean Renoir

Genre

comedy film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

U

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 156 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy bookseller rescues a scruffy tramp from drowning and tries to reform him with a job and a home. The tramp resists the rules of polite society and upends the household instead.

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What happens

Boudu Saved from Drowning (French: Boudu sauvé des eaux, "Boudu saved from the waters") is a 1932 French social satire comedy of manners film directed by Jean Renoir. Renoir wrote the film's screenplay, from the 1919 play by René Fauchois. The film stars Michel Simon as Boudu. Pauline Kael called it, "not only a lovely fable about a bourgeois attempt to reform an early hippie... but a photographic record of an earlier France." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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