Boudu Saved from Drowning ( 1932 ) ( Boudu sauvé des eaux )

Boudu Saved from Drowning ( 1932 ) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Boudu sauvé des eaux
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
81 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1932 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Jean Renoir

Written By:
René Fauchois

Actors:
Michel Simon ..... Priape Boudu
Marcelle Hainia ..... Emma Lestingois
Sévérine Lerczinska ..... Chloë Anne Marie, la bonne
Jean Gehret ..... Vigour
Max Dalban ..... Godin
Jean Dasté ..... L'étudiant
Charles Granval ..... Édouard Lestingois

Synopsis:

Boudu (played by Michel Simon, who also produced the film) is a shaggy, foul-smelling tramp who is rescued from drowning by bourgeois Frenchman Charles Granval. Deciding to "reform" Boudu, Granval invites the hobo into his home. Boudu returns the favor by turning the household upside down and by conducting an affair with Granval's wife Marcella Hainia. All ends happily--for Boudu at least - when the tramp wins the national lottery and marries maid Severine Lerczynska, who is so delighted that she ends her own affair with the hypocritical Granval. Boudu decides to forego his new-found wealth for his previous carefree existence, leaving the greedy Lerczynska in the lurch. Filmed in 1932, Boudu Saved From Drowning was not released in the US until 1967, at which time it was universally praised by the wine-and-cheese critics.

Boudu, 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...

Satire on bourgeois society in which a tramp who is rescued from drowning and rehabilitated is unrepentantly ungrateful.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 16 May, 2012.

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