The Rules of the Game, by Jean Renoir, is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances. The film has had a tumultuous history: it was subjected to cuts after the violent response of the premiere audience in 1939, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II; it wasn’t reconstructed until 1959.
Nora Gregor | Christine de la Cheyniest | |
Paulette Dubost | Lisette / sa camériste | |
Mila Parély | Geneviève de Marras | |
Odette Talazac | Mme de la Plante | |
Claire Gérard | Mme de la Bruyère | |
Anne Mayen | Jackie / nièce de Christine | |
Lise Elina | Radio-Reporter | |
Marcel Dalio | Marquis Robert de la Cheyniest | |
Julien Carette | Marceau / le braconnier | |
Roland Toutain | André Jurieux | |
Gaston Modot | Edouard Schumacher / le garde-chasse | |
Jean Renoir | Octave | |
Pierre Magnier | Le général | |
Eddy Debray | Corneille / le majordome | |
Pierre Nay | St. Aubin | |
Richard Francoeur | La Bruyère | |
Léon Larive | Le cuisinier | |
Nicolas Amato | L'invité sud-américain | |
Jacques Beauvais | Adolphe / un domestique | |
Henri Cartier-Bresson | Le domestique anglais | |
Celestin | Le garçon de cuisine | |
Tony Corteggiani | Berthelin | |
Geo Forster | Un invité | |
Roger Forster | L'invité efféminé | |
Camille François | Le speaker |
Director | Jean Renoir | |
Writer | Jean Renoir, Carl Koch, Beaumarchais | |
Producer | Jean Renoir | |
Photography | Jean Bachelet |