Boudu Saved from Drowning

Director Jean Renoir opens his celebrated comedy, fantasy to introduce Paris bookseller Lestingois (Charles Gravnal) and his assistant Anne-Marie (Severine Lerczynska), from a play by Renè Fauchois, starring Michel Simon, Boudu Saved From Drowning, 1932.

Michel Simon (title character), rescued from the Seine by bookseller Lestingois (Charles Gravnal), taking to the notion that the man who saved him is now responsible for him, his wife and maid (Marcelle Hainia, Severine Lerczynska) less happy, in Jean Renoir’s Boudu Saved From Drowning, 1932.

We’ve met the title character, vagrant Boudu (Michel Simon), disconsolate because his dog ran off, now trudging around Paris, observed by philosophical bookseller Lestingois (Charles Gravnal), his maid (Severine Lerczynska) baffled, director Jean Renoir’s premise emerging, in Boudu Saved From Drowning, 1932.