Boudu Saved from Drowning

Boudu Saved from Drowning (French: Boudu sauvé des eaux, "Boudu saved from the waters") is a 1932 French social satire comedy of manners film directed by Jean Renoir. Renoir wrote the film's screenplay, from the 1919 play by René Fauchois. The film stars Michel Simon as Boudu.

Boudu Saved from Drowning
French film poster
Directed byJean Renoir
Written byRené Fauchois (play)
Jean Renoir
Produced byMichel Simon
StarringMichel Simon
Music byLéo Daniderff (uncredited),
title and end music by Raphael,
flute music by J.Boulze,
orphéon music by Edouard Dumoulin,
Johann Strauss ("An der schönen, blauen Donau")
Distributed byLes Établissements Jacques Haïk
Release date
11 November 1932
Running time
84 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Pauline Kael called it, "not only a lovely fable about a bourgeois attempt to reform an early hippie... but a photographic record of an earlier France."

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