Backstairs

Backstairs is a film with French sketches carried out by Carlo Rim in 1954

Summary

With end of resources and dying of hunger, Marie-Lou, small good is collected by Léo and her friends squatters. The heat of their reception puts it in confidence and she tells them the life of her former owners. The madness and the noise which reigned at Dumery where Mister were minister. Silence crushing and insupportable that one found at Delecluze, Mister being torturer. In Béchard, Mister and his Gaston son continued it under the eye tolerating Madam. The Berthier couple, Mister author, Madam, actress, put it at the door as soon as the financial position was restored. Only its stay at Grimaldi enabled him to meet Benvenuto, a young brilliant painter, that Marie-Lou finds, washed of any charge, after one had suspected it of being a forger. Young brought together people, the future belongs to them.

Data sheet

Realization: Carlo Rim
Scenario: Carlo Rim
Adaptation: Carlo Rim, Jean Levite
Dialog: Carlo Rim
Assistant realizer: Maurice Delbez
Images: Robert Juillard
Operator: Jean Lalier
Music: Georges Van Parys (Transatlantic Music publishings)
Decorations: Serge Pimenoff, assisted of Jean Taillandier
Dresses: Jacques Heim
Make-up: Nicole Bouban
Assembly: Robert and Monique Isnardon
Sound: Raymond Gauguier
Script girl: Sylvette Baudrot
general Manager: Irenee Leriche
Interior designer: Rene Turbeaux
Photographer of plate: Jean Klissak
Turning from March 18th to May 15th with the studios of Boulogne Billancourt
Film 35mm, black and white
Pulling: Laboratory G.T.C of Joinville - Its Optiphone
Chief of production: Paul Wagner
Directing of production: Robert Sussfeld
Associate producer: Alain Poiré
Production: S.N.E.G Gaumont - Gaumont Topicality
Distribution: Gaumont
First presentation the 11/19/1954
Lasted: 89mn
Kind: Dramatic comedy
Visa of exploitation: 15199

Distribution

Sketch: Grimaldi

Louis de Funès: Cesare Grimaldi, the father, Italian artist
Marc Cassot: Benvenuto Grimaldi, the son, brilliant painter
Anne Caprile: Carlotta Grimaldi, the girl prostitute
Andréa Parisy: The second girl Grimaldi
Albert Michel: The sexton, friend of the " Grimaldi"
Fernand Sardou: Scarfatti, the conservative of Louvre
Claire Gerard: Victorine, the sweeper of Louvre
Rene Hell: A sexton
Palmyre Levasseur: A guest with engagement
Rudy Lenoir: An inspector

Sketch of connection

Etchika Choureau: Marie-Lou, good in various houses
Jean-Marc Thibault: Léo, the travelling photographer
Gerard Blain: A photographer buddy of Léo
Estella Blain: A girlfriend of Léo
Claude Sylvain: A girlfriend of Léo
Evelyne Gabrielli: A girlfriend of Léo
Jacqueline Monsigny: A girlfriend of Léo
Christian Lude: The passer by photographed
Robert Lombard: The fashion photographer, friend of Léo
Denise Kerny: The good one of the coffee
max Desrau: The customer who waits the coffee
Henri Coutet: A neighbor with his window
Henri Belly: A friend of Léo
Franck Maurice: A spectator with the fireworks
Robert Draper: A spectator with the fireworks
François Joux: The inspector

Sketch: Dumeny

Sophie Desmarets: Mrs. Dumeny, the woman of the minister
Jacques Morel: Georges Dumeny, minister of state
Marthe Mercadier: Hortense Van de Putte, the Belgian cousin
Helene Roussel: The secretary of Georges
Bernard Musson: A man who awaits Mr. Dumeny in the anteroom
Jacques Legras: A man who awaits Mr. Dumeny in the anteroom
Jean Sylvain: A man who awaits Mr. Dumeny in the anteroom
Alain Bouvette: The toilettor for dog
Rene Dupuy: Clement Van de Putte, the Belgian cousin
Edmond Ardisson: The washer
Luc Andrieux: The metal worker
Marcel Méral: The slag
the dog Azor

Sketch: Delécluze

Saturnin Fabre: Mr. Delécluze, father and official torturer
Héléna Manson: Mrs. Delécluze, mother
Yves Robert: Mr. Courbessac, the son-in-law of the " Delécluze"
Marcelle Arnold: Mrs. Courbessac

Sketch: Béchard

Jean Richard: Jules Béchard, agent with the markets
Junie Astor: Aline Béchard, the woman of Jules
Denise Grey: Mrs. Thévenot, the mother of Aline
Alfred Adam: Albert, the cousin, keeps republican
Jean-Pierre Jaubert: Gaston Béchard, the son
Robert Dalban: The buddy of Jules
Eugene Stuber: A market porter

Sketch: Berthier

Danielle Darrieux: Beatrice Berthier, actress, woman of François
Robert Lamoureux: François Berthier, scenario writer and dramatic author
Misha Auer: Nicolas Pouchkoff, the Russian producer
Jacques Cartwright: The Master of hotel
Rene Berthier: The notary
Jean-Louis Goff: The cook
Pierre Duncan: A remover
Jimmy Perrys: A remover

with:

Claude Arlay
Josée Doucet
Jacques Ferry
Rodolphe Martin
Jacques Pruvost
Jose Quaglio
Annie Roudier

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