Boudu - saved from the waters
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Boudu - saved from the waters |
| Original title | Boudu sauvé des eaux |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1932 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Renoir |
| script | Jean Renoir, René Fauchois , Albert Valentin |
| production | Michel Simon |
| music | Raphael |
| camera | Marcel Lucien |
| cut |
Marguerite Renoir , Suzanne de Troeye |
| occupation | |
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Boudu - Saved from the Waters is an anarchic French social satire from 1932 by Jean Renoir with Michel Simon in the title role.
action
Paris , at the beginning of 1930. Boudu is a clochard and vagabond, an anarchic free spirit who doesn't care about conventions. When one day his most loyal companion, his dog, goes missing , the run-down misanthrope , who is only disgusted by society , wants to throw himself from the Pont des Arts into the waters of the Seine with suicidal intent . Monsieur Lestingois, a liberal bourgeois who, as a bookseller, has devoted himself entirely to the beauty of the arts, observes him at this request. He doesn't shy away from wet feet, rescues Boudu from the waters of the Seine and takes the brawny and ragged curmudgeon to his bookstore. Soon Boudu, who shows anything but great gratitude, settles in with Lestingois at home.
His home is his wife Emma and the maid Anne-Marie, with whom Monsieur is having an affair. Emma is anything but enthusiastic about the rude and scruffy guest, whom Monsieur tries to teach the manners of a civilized city dweller. However, with his unconventional manner, Boudu quickly brings chaos into the house, which had been well-ordered up until then. Then he tries - with success - to seduce Madame and the maid. But since it is important to maintain morality and to comply with social conventions, Monsieur Lestingois now decides that Boudu has to marry the maid. On the wedding boat on the Marne , an accident occurs promptly: The boat capsizes, and Boudu takes the opportunity and swims up and away to regain his freedom.
Production notes
Boudu - Saved from the Waters was made in the summer of 1932 and premiered on November 11, 1932 in the Colisée cinema in Paris. There was obviously no German pre-war performance. The German television premiere took place on January 7, 1966 on ARD .
Hugues Laurent and Jean Castanier created the film structures,
1985 was a remake in Hollywood with Zoff in Beverly Hills ; a French remake came twenty years later under the title Boudu in the cinemas.
Reviews
“The charm of Boudu is the glorification of vulgarity. (...) Boudu is a wonderfully obscene film. "
“A thoroughly anarchist comedy. While Boudu was a thoroughly unsympathetic appearance in the literary model, here he embodies the freedom that conformist bourgeois life breaks into. And Renoir's particular sympathy is also clearly for this figure. "
The lexicon of international film says: “A satire on the morality of bourgeois society, a homage to the life of ordinary people and a hymn to the lack of ties of the individualist: Jean Renoir's classic comedy captivates with anarchic wit, loving observation, craftsmanship and the outstanding play by Michel Simon in the role of Boudu. "
"... bitterly funny society satire" Boudu sauvé des eaux "with a gifted leading actor Michel Simon, who exuded a touch of ingenious, humanistic anarchy ..."
“'Boudu sauvé des eaux', an anarchist farce that became a complete failure commercially, is the best film of a bad period. But it contains more promises than successful passages. "
“This wonderfully immoral story… marks the climax of the collaboration between Renoir and actor Michel Simon and contains very good examples of Renoir's use of depth of field . His mixture of farce and seriousness and his deliberate violation of good taste make Boudu a characteristic work of French cinema of the early 1930s. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boudu - saved from the waters. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 24, 2018 .
Web links
- Boudu - from the waters saved in the Internet Movie Database (English)