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	Harry Baur	Alain Regnault
	Marie Bell	Christine Surgère
	Pierre Blanchar	Thierry Raynal
	Fernandel	Fabien Coutissol
	Louis Jouvet	Pierre Verdier / dit Jo
	Raimu	Francois Patusset
	Françoise Rosay	Marguerite Audié
	Pierre Richard-Willm	Eric Irvin
	Maurice Bénard	Bremont
	Pierre Alcover	Teddy Mélanco
	Alfred Adam	Fred
	Roger Legris	Melanco - Un complice de Jo
	Henri Nassiet	Le Guide
	Milly Mathis	Cécile Gachery
	René Génin	L'adjoint du maire
	Andrex	Paul
	Sylvie	Gaby - La maîtresse de Thierry
	Jeanne Fusier-Gir	La marchande de journaux
	Robert Lynen	Jacques Dambreval
	Les Petits Chanteurs à la Croi Bois	La Manécanterie des petits chanteurs de la Croix de Bois
	Jacques Beauvais	Le maître d'hôtel
	Peggy Bonny	L'entraîneuse
	Serge de Landauer
	Georges Dorival	Le baron
	Crista Dorra

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Director	Julien Duvivier
Writer	Julien Duvivier, Henri Jeanson, Jean Sarment, Bernard Zimmer, Yves Mirande, Pierre Wolff
Producer	Jean-Pierre Frogerais, Raymond Horvilleur
Musician	Maurice Jaubert
Photography	Philippe Agostini, Michel Kelber, Pierre Levent

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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.

A rich widow, nostalgic for the lavish parties of her youth, embarks on a journey to reconnect with the many suitors who once courted her. In doing so, she sets off on a course of discovery, both of herself and of how greatly the world has changed in two decades. Julien Duvivier’s smash hit is a wry, visually inventive tale of romantic pragmatism that deftly combines comedy and drama.

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