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	Harry Baur	Monsieur Lepic
	Robert Lynen	François Lepic - dit 'Poil de Carotte'
	Louis Gauthier	Le parrain
	Simone Aubry	Ernestine Lepic
	Maxime Fromiot	Félix Lepic
	Colette Segall	La petite Mathilde
	Marthe Marty	Honorine - la vieille bonne
	Christiane Dor	Annette / la bonne
	Catherine Fonteney	Madame Lepic
	Claude Borelli	Un petit garçon à la noce
	Colette Borelli	Une petite fille à la noce
	Jean Borelli	Un petit graçon à la noce

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Director	Julien Duvivier
Writer	Jules Renard, Julien Duvivier
Musician	Alexander Tansman
Photography	Monniot, Armand Thirard

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Remembered primarily for directing the classic crime drama Pépé le moko, Julien Duvivier was one of the finest filmmakers working in France in the 1930s. Thanks to a formidable innate understanding of the cinematic medium, Duvivier made the transition from silents to talkies with ease, marrying his expressive camera work to a strikingly inventive use of sound with a singular dexterity. His deeply shadowed, fatalistic early sound films David Golder and La tête d’un homme anticipate the poetic realist style that would come to define the decade in French cinema and, together with the small-town family drama Poil de Carotte and the swooning tale of love and illusion Un carnet de bal, showcase his stunning versatility. These four films—all featuring the great stage and screen actor Harry Baur—are collected here, each evidence of an immense and often overlooked cinematic talent.

Julien Duvivier remade his own silent adaptation of a popular turn-of-the-twentieth-century novella and play for the sound era, resulting in one of his most beloved films. In a tremendously moving performance, Robert Lynen plays the neglected young François, mockingly called Poil de Carotte (Carrottop) by his family for his mop of red hair. Duvivier sensitively charts the rural daily life of a boy desperate to connect with others, especially his distracted father, played by the chameleonic Harry Baur.

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