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Director:
Julien Duvivier
Writers:
Julien Duvivier (writer)
Charles Spaak (writer)
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Release Date:
31 May 1938 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Those five are unemployed penniless workers. Together they win 100,000 Francs with the national lottery... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A pillar of 1930's French Cinema more (4 total)

Cast

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Jean Gabin ... Jean dit Jeannot
Charles Vanel ... Charles dit Charlot
Raymond Aimos ... Raymond dit Tintin
Viviane Romance ... Gina
Jacques Baumer ... Monsieur Jubette
Marcelle Géniat ... La grand' mère
Raymond Cordy ... L'ivrogne
Charles Granval ... Le propriétaire
Micheline Cheirel ... Huguette
Rafael Medina ... Mario (as Raphaël Medina)
Charles Dorat ... Jacques
Robert Lynen ... René
Robert Ozanne ... Le patron du bistrot
Robert Moor ... Un locataire
Marcel Maupi ... Un copain (as Maupi)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Jours de Pâques (France) (working title)
They Were Five (International: English title)
Jean Pariisista (Finland) [fi]
La bella brigata (Italy) [it]
La belle équipe (Austria) [de]
O pothos tis amartias (Greece) [el]
Vier Freunde (Austria) (reissue title) [de]
Zünftige Bande (Germany) [de]
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Runtime:
Germany:100 min | France:101 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA High Fidelity)
Certification:
Finland:K-16 | Germany:16
Company:
Ciné-Arys more

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A pillar of 1930's French Cinema, 18 January 2001
Author: Nicholas Rhodes from Ile-de-France / Paris Region, France

Shot in 1936 on the Banks of The Marne river some 5 miles from Paris, La Belle Equipe constituted a milestone in French Cinema. Coinciding with the advent of the " Front Populaire ", the film is today remembered for the scenes in the guinguette and the beautiful valse musette " Quand on s'promène au bord de l'eau " sung by actor Jean Gabin and accompanied by roving accordionist Albert Deprince. The film is about a group of factory workers who win the lottery and club together to construct a guingette ( dance hall ) on the banks of the Marne between Nogent and Joinville. All starts well but quarrels develop and women get in the way ! There are in fact two endings, a happy one reluctantly made by director Duvivier to please the public, and a pessmistic one which was the director's own personal choice. For some strange reason the pessimistic ending is always subtitled in German !!! Easily available on VHS cassette in France, hopefully will one day be issued on DVD. You may visit today by riverboat the area where the film was shot and until a few years ago could see the actual remains of the "guinguette" built specially for the film !!

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