Boudu saved from drowning

Author

Jean Renoir

Call Number

• DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Full screen version.

Performers

Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia, Séverine Lerczinska, Jean Gehret.

Publication Information

[United States] : The Criterion Collection, c2005.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (84 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

A well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and his family dedicates itself to reforming him. He shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts.

Notes

DVD format ; monaural.

Videodisc release of the 1932 motion picture.

In French with optional English subtitles.

Based on the play by René Fauchois.