The Rules of the Game

  • Nora Gregor: Christine de la Chesnaye
  • Paulette Dubost: Lisette
  • Mila Parély: Geneviève de Marras
  • Odette Talazac: Madame de la Plante
  • Claire Gérard: Madame de la Bruyère
  • Roland Toutain: André Jurieux
  • Jean Renoir: Octave
  • Marcel Dalio: Robert de la Chesnaye

The rule of the game is a French film directed by Jean Renoir in 1939. During the recent survey of the renowned film magazine Sight and Sound at the best movie of all time, he finished fourth.

Action

The pilot André Jurieux is infinitely disappointed when after a transatlantic flight Christine de la Chesnaye, the woman for whom he has flown, not waiting for him. Octave, a friend of André and Christine, persuaded Robert, the husband of Christine, invite the flight heroes on a game weekend with the fine Parisian society. During this weekend, a lively love drifting, but in which the rules must not be broken developed.

Awards

Jean Renoir received the Bodil Award for Best European Film for The rule of the game in 1966.

German dubbed version

The film had its premiere in Germany on 5 March 1968, a broadcast on ARD. In the cinema he ran to first on 24 November 1972. The German dubbed version ( Writer and Director ) created Hermann Gressieker.

Reviews

  • " In Renoir's masterpiece hidden under a comedic surface time criticism and bitter skepticism, and the collapse of the sanctioned lie is staged as sarcastically cheerful dance, and the social " rules " of the time turn out to be self-destructive conventions that Renoir sentiment in pre-war France. precisely had taken showed the reaction of his countrymen., the film was rejected by the public in October 1939 and banned by the censors as " demoralizing ". " - " Encyclopedia of the international film ", 1997
  • " Renoir ( ... ) created with this in terms of form and content, above-average film dance a masterpiece of narrative cinema. " ( Rating: 4 Stars = outstanding ) - Adolf Meier Heinzl and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon " Movies on TV ", 1990
  • " The rule of the game is one of those rare works of the highest art, which must be no art at a certain level to be convincing. Regarded as entertaining comedy he is a pleasure, as a social parable a critical, pessimistic masterpiece The miracle is that he is on both levels can work equally and wants. " Janis El- Bira for moviemaze.de
  • " I know of no other filmmaker who has so much of himself - had put in a film like Jean Renoir in La Regulations du Jeu - - and the best of themselves. François Truffaut

Background

The film had on July 7, 1939 in Paris Premiere and but was initially a failure.

Others

There is a French magazine, entitled ' La regle du jeu '. It was founded by Bernard- Henri Lévy ( born 1948 ), now editor of the journal in 1990.

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