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Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1932 · 84 mins · French
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- Directed by
- Jean Renoir
- Starring
- Jean Dasté, Michel Simon, Jacques Becker, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia, Sévérine Lerczinska
Michel Simon gives a memorable performance as Bouda, a Parisian tramp who leaps into the Seine and is rescued by bookseller Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family takes him in, but his irrepressible nature upends their orderly home, while director Jean Renoir uses Parisian settings and Simon’s anarchic charm to satirize bourgeois respectability.
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