Partie de campagne (1936) Online
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
Complete credited cast: | |||
Sylvia Bataille | - | Henriette | |
Georges D'Arnoux | - | Henri (as Georges Saint-Saens) | |
Jane Marken | - | Madame Dufour (as Jeanne Marken) | |
André Gabriello | - | Monsieur Dufour (as Gabriello) | |
Jacques B. Brunius | - | Rodolphe (as Jacques Borel) | |
Paul Temps | - | Anatole | |
Gabrielle Fontan | - | La grand' mère / Grandmother | |
Jean Renoir | - | Père Poulain / Uncle Poulain | |
Marguerite Renoir | - | La servante / Waitress | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
Pierre Lestringuez | - | Un vieux curé / Old priest |
Shot in the summer of 1936 and was not released until 10 years later, in a forty-minute unfinished version.
Future leading directors Jacques Becker and Luchino Visconti worked as Renoir's assistant directors.
The boy fishing from the bridge in the beginning of the film is Jean Renoir 's son.
Famous french photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, 28 years old at the time, worked as the second assistant to director Jean Renoir.
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
While producer Pierre Braunberger had to wait until the end of WWII to get the dailies from the labs and edit a release version of this unfinished movie; director Jean Renoir who worked in Hollywwod during this era was not involved about this task.
In 1994 the French Cinematheque presented a program of the rushes from the 1936 shoot, which they had preserved and which Alain Fleischer had edited together.
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