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''Boudu Saved from Drowning'' (''French:'' '''''Boudu sauvé des eaux''''') is a 1932 French Film , directed by Jean Renoir . Renoir wrote the film's screenplay with Albert Valentin , from the play by René Fauchois . It stars Michel Simon as Boudu. REMAKE The film was remade in 2005 as '' Boudu ''. Gérard Jugnot directed, from a screenplay by Philippe Lopes-Curval . It starred Gérard Depardieu as Boudu. It is seen as inferior to the original film directed by Jean Renoir by critics. Plot summary of the original film: After well-to-do bookseller Edouard Lestingois (Charles Granval) rescues a tramp, Boudu, from a suicidal plunge into the Seine, his family adopts the bum and dedicates itself to reforming him. Boudu (Michel Simon) shows his gratitude by shaking the household to its foundations, challenging the hidebound principles of his hosts and seducing them with his anarchic charm. With this film, Jean Renoir created a masterful satire of bourgeois complacency. EXTERNAL LINK |
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