Rules of the game

the Rules of the game is a French film of Jean Renoir, left in 1939.

Synopsis

In a castle, at the end of the Years 1930, several people of the upper middle classes and their servants find themselves for various reasons at the time of a weekend. Intrigues in love are tied, a murder is made…

Data sheet

Title: the Rules of the game
Realization: Jean Renoir
Scenario and dialog: Jean Renoir and Carl Koch
Production: Claude Renoir
musical Direction: Roger Désormières (Mozart and Monsigny)
Photography: Jean Bachelet, Jean-Paul Alphen and Alain Renoir
Assembly: Marguerite Renoir and Marthe Huguet
Decorations: max Douy and Eugene Lourié
Costumes: Coco Chanel
Assistant realization: Henri Cartier and Andre Zwoboda
Country of origin: France
Format: Black and white - 1,37:1 - Mono - 35mm
Kind: dramatic comedy (a “merry drama”, according to the expression of the realizer)
Lasted: 110 minutes
Date: July 8th 1939

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the film was strongly cut to its exit. The version that we know today is an altered version of 1959.

the Rules of the game one of films is the most commented on history of the cinema. It influenced good number of authors.

It was the first film to be appeared in the program of the baccalaureat in France at the end of the Années 1990.

the scene of this film where Jean Renoir struggles in a skin of bear at the time of the festival in Collinière inspired Olivia Rosenthal for the scene between Cérès and the bear in its play “the cat-like ones likes me” (Creation in 2005 with Valerie Crunchant in the role of Cérès, put in scene of Alain Ollivier).

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