The River (French: Le Fleuve) is a 1951 film directed by Jean Renoir. It was filmed in India. It is a coming of age film.
A fairly faithful dramatization of an earlier literary work of the same name (The River, authored by Rumer Godden), the movie attests to a teenager's coming of age and first love, and how her heart is broken when the man she falls in love with is smitten with her best friend instead.
The film was produced by Kenneth McEldowney, and original music was by M. A. Partha Sarathy. The cast includes Esmond Knight, Nora Swinburne and Arthur Shields.
| The River | |
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Film poster
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| Directed by | Jean Renoir |
| Produced by | Kenneth McEldowney Jean Renoir |
| Written by | Rumer Godden (novel) Jean Renoir |
| Starring | Nora Swinburne Esmond Knight Arthur Shields Suprova Mukerjee Radha Burnier |
| Narrated by | June Hillman |
| Music by | M. A. Partha Sarathy |
| Cinematography | Claude Renoir |
| Edited by | George Gale |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date
| 10 September 1951 |
Running time
| 99 minutes |
| Country | France / India / USA |
| Language | English / Bengali |
| Box office | $1 million (US rentals)[1] |
Le Crime de monsieur Lange (1935)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange - Trailer
| The Crime of Monsieur Lange | |
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| Directed by | Jean Renoir |
| Produced by | André Halley des Fontaines Jean Renoir |
| Screenplay by | Jacques Prévert |
| Story by | Jean Renoir Jean Castanier |
| Starring | René Lefèvre Florelle Jules Berry Marcel Lévesque Sylvia Bataille Nadia Sibirskaïa |
| Music by | Joseph Kosma Jean Wiener |
| Cinematography | Jean Bachelet |
| Edited by | Marthe Huguet Marguerite Renoir |
Release date
| 1936 |
Running time
| 80 min |
| Language | French |
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (pronounced [mə.sjø lɑ̃ʒ]; French: Le Crime de Monsieur Lange) is a 1936 film directed by Jean Renoir about a publishing cooperative. An idyllic picture of a socialist France, the film is part social commentary and part romance.
Plot[edit]
Imbued with the spirit of the left-wing political movement, the Popular Front, which would have a major political victory that year, the film chronicles the story of M. Lange (René Lefèvre), a mild-mannered clerk at a publishing company who dreams of writing Western stories. He gets his chance when Batala (Jules Berry), the salacious head of the company, fakes his own death and the abandoned workers decide to form a cooperative. They have great success with Lange's stories about the cowboy, Arizona Jim — whose stories parallel the real-life experiences of the cooperative. At the same time, Lange and his neighbor, Valentine (Florelle), fall in love.
When Batala returns from the "dead", intending to reclaim the publishing company, Lange shoots and kills him (the "crime" of the title). Lange and Valentine flee to escape the country, stopping at an inn near the Belgian border. Here, Valentine tells Lange's story to a group of the inn's patrons, who had recognized Lange as the "murderer on the run" and threatened to turn him in to the police. After the story is through, the men sympathize with Lange and decide to allow him to escape across the border to freedom.
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