Boudu Saved from Drowning | |
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Directed by | Jean Renoir |
Written by | René Fauchois (play) Jean Renoir |
Produced by | Michel Simon |
Starring | Michel Simon |
Music by | Léo Daniderff (uncredited), title and end music by Raphael, flute music by J.Boulze, orphéon music by Edouard Dumoulin, Johann Strauss ("An der schönen, blauen Donau") |
Distributed by | Les Établissements Jacques Haïk |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
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."[1]