Year: 1932
Runtime: 84 mins
Language: French
Director: Jean Renoir
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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