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Raimu | ... | L'oncle Jules Froment | |
Michèle Morgan | ... | Marie Froment-Léonard | |
Louis Jouvet | ... | Pierre Froment / Félix Froment | |
Suzy Prim | ... | Estelle Froment adulte | |
Renée Devillers | ... | Gabrielle Froment | |
Georges Biscot | ... | Noblet (as Biscot) | |
Colette Darfeuil | ... | L'entraîneuse habituée du Moulin Rouge | |
Harry Krimer | ... | Robert Léonard | |
René Génin | ... | Le père de Gabrielle (as Génin) | |
Fernand Ledoux | ... | Le maire (as Ledoux) | |
Daniel Mendaille | ... | Clémenceau | |
Jean Mercanton | ... | Alain Froment | |
Lucien Nat | ... | Bernard Froment adulte | |
René Bergeron | ... | Sénéchal (as Bergeron) | |
Colette Borelli | ... | Estelle enfant | |
Romain Bouquet | |||
Auguste Bovério | (as Boverio) | ||
Thomy Bourdelle | |||
Jean Claudio | ... | Félix enfant | |
Léo David | |||
René Ferté | |||
Anita Gombault | |||
Pierre Jourdan | ... | Christian Froment | |
Olga Lord | |||
Marcel Maupi | |||
Missia | |||
Moniquella | |||
Michele Olivier | (as Michèle Olivier) | ||
Robert Ozanne | |||
Raymone | |||
Maurice Rémy | ... | Un étudiant | |
Sylvette Saugé | |||
Olga Valéry | |||
Génia Vaury | |||
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Charles Boyer | ... | Introductory Narrator [US version only] | |
Nicolas Amato | ... | (uncredited) | |
Dora Doll | ... | (uncredited) | |
Fignolita | ... | (uncredited) | |
Louis Jourdan | ... | Christian (uncredited) | |
Yvonne Legeay | ... | (uncredited) | |
Robert Le Vigan | ... | L'oncle Michel Froment (uncredited) | |
Drue Lytton | ... | (uncredited) | |
Ginette Maddie | ... | Aglaé (uncredited) | |
Pierre Magnier | ... | (uncredited) | |
Jean-François Martial | ... | (uncredited) | |
Jean Mercury | ... | (uncredited) | |
Jako Mika | ... | Un danseur (uncredited) | |
Anita Palacine | ... | (uncredited) | |
Claude Robert | ... | Un danseur (uncredited) | |
Sinoël | ... | (uncredited) | |
Madeleine Sylvain | ... | Valentine Froment, la femme de Pierre (uncredited) | |
Jean Wiener | ... | (uncredited) |
Réalisé par | |||
Julien Duvivier | |||
Scénaristes(in alphabetical order) | ||
Marcel Achard | dialogue | |
Marcel Achard | screenplay | |
Julien Duvivier | screenplay | |
Charles Spaak | screenplay |
Produit par | |||
Paul Graetz | .... | producer | |
Musique originale | |||
Jean Wiener | |||
Image | |||
Jules Kruger | |||
Montage | |||
Marthe Poncin | |||
Direction artistique | |||
Guy de Gastyne | |||
Décorateur de plateau | |||
Paul-Louis Boutié | |||
Création des costumes | |||
Rosine Delamare | |||
Maquillage | |||
Hagop Arakelian | .... | makeup artist (as Arakelian) | |
Keldisch | .... | makeup artist | |
Joseph Mejinsky | .... | makeup artist | |
Directeur de production | |||
Jean Lévy-Strauss | .... | production manager | |
Assistant réalisateur | |||
Pierre Duvivier | .... | assistant director | |
Robert Vernay | .... | assistant director | |
Technicien du son | |||
Joseph de Bretagne | .... | sound | |
Effets spéciaux | |||
Nicolas Wilcké | .... | special effects | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
Louis Née | .... | camera operator | |
Bandera, La | Règle du jeu, La | Panique | Bon voyage | Fille du puisatier, La |
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Strange destiny that the one of this movie.Shot in 1940,it was actually released after the Liberation,(in 1945,not 1943)at least in France.It is easy to see why.It encompasses seventy years,from 1871 to 1940,and its last pictures show an old couple,praying in a church at the beginning of WW2.
In a nutshell,it's a very kitsch work,which has not worn well.It must have seemed obsolete even for the 1945 audience.It's almost impossible to feel Duvivier's touch in this family saga ,full of mushy scenes,most of them laughable .Duvivier is a very pessimistic director whose best works ("la belle équipe"(1936) "pépé le moko" (1937) "la fin du jour " (1939) "panique" (1946) and "voici le temps des assassins"(1956))are close to film noir.Duvivier needs a compact screenplay,his art becomes null and void when it comes to depict a lot of characters during a long long long time.Besides,"untel père et fils" is much too short -hardly 80 minutes- and does not rise to the occasion as far ambition is concerned.The pace is very fast(eg:five minutes are given over to WW1!!),sometimes it becomes impossible to follow the plot and to know who is who-eg:Louis Jouvet appears at the beginning of the movie,playing both the father and the son,then disappears during one entire hour, just to reappear,in an absurd way ,ten minutes before the end.
Enough is enough!the 1870 war,WW1,and the beginning of WW2,Montmartre and the artists,la Commune,the building of the Sacre-Coeur,Moulin Rouge and the de rigueur French cancan,the beginnings of the flying machines,the woman with a gold heart who devotes her life to the Sick and the Poor -who predates the Occupation melodrama,the likes of Jean Stelli's 1942 "le voile bleu"(American remake "Blue Veil" in 1951 by Curtis Bernardt)- and Raimu , his Marseilles accent and his bouillabaisse. Stuffing all this and three wars too in such a short film is quite a feat in itself but it does not make a masterwork for all that.
Julien Duvivier is a wonderful director,but if you want to see something really great,just pick up one of the works I mention above.This one is nothing more than a curio.