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A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 1 nomination
Nora Gregor
- Christine de la Cheyniest
- (as Nora Grégor)
Lise Elina
- Radio-Reporter
- (as Lise Élina)
Julien Carette
- Marceau, le braconnier
- (as Carette)
Richard Francoeur
- La Bruyère
- (as Francoeur)
Nicolas Amato
- L'invité sud-américain
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAfter the success of The Grand Illusion (1937) and La Bête Humaine (1938), Jean Renoir and his nephew Claude Renoir set up their own production company, Les Nouvelles Editions Françaises (NEF). This was their first and last production, as the company went into bankruptcy and was dissolved due to the ban of their movie after just three weeks of shows.
- GoofsWhen the hunting party starts, the animals (notably the rabbits) barely move. Even when the beaters are close to them, they move at the last moment. This because the animals were not wild as the plot required, but actually bred in captivity and hence used to human presence. For information, the killing is real: many animals died during the movie.
- Alternate versionsPrologue to 1959 reconstructed version: "Jean Gaborit and Jacques Durand reconstructed this film with the approval and advice of Jean Renoir, who dedicates this resurrection to the memory of André Bazin."
- ConnectionsEdited into Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma (1994)
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There's a food chain where the top is filled with crass, it's the opposite of cream, more septic mass, quite immoral and corrupt, degenerate and so abrupt, they have their rules, behave like mules, with necks of brass. You'd like to think these folk, had long since gone, but they're more common in today, so you'd be wrong, like leaches sucking blood, symbolically, they're all deadwood, but their claws are buried deep, so they hang on.
The decadent lives of those who have found themselves fat with inherited wealth and power, and the disdain they and their hangers on have for the rest of society in a world that still exists today.
The decadent lives of those who have found themselves fat with inherited wealth and power, and the disdain they and their hangers on have for the rest of society in a world that still exists today.
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- Pravila igre
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- Budget
- FRF 5,500,500 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $273,641
- Gross worldwide
- $273,641
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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