In Renoir's satire of French middle-class society, a well-off bookseller rescues a tramp from a suicidal plunge into the Seine and the bookseller's family dedicates itself to reforming the vagrant.
General Note
Special features: introduction by Jean Renoir; excerpt from a "Cinéastes de notre temps" program, featuring Renoir and Michel Simon; interview with filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin; interview with Eric Rohmer; interactive map of 1930s Paris; a new essay by Renoir scholar Christopher Faulkner.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1932.