Directed by:
Jean RenoirScreenplay:
Jean RenoirComposer:
Joseph KosmaCast:
Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Odette Talazac, Claire Gérard, Anne Mayen, Lise Elina, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette, Roland Toutain, Gaston Modot (more)VOD (2)
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THE RULES OF THE GAME is a devastating satire of the pre-WWII French aristocracy. Starring Marcel Dalio as wealthy landowner Marquis Robert de la Chesnaye, it charts the shifting relationships among the guests at a weekend hunting party on his vast estate. The guest list includes Robert's mistress Genevieve (Mila Parely), from whom he's trying to part, and Andre Jurieu (Roland Toutain), a famed aviator who is in love with Robert's wife, Christine (Nora Gregor). As they begin a dizzy dance of escape and pursuit, their games are observed and echoed by the servants below the stairs. The gamekeeper Schumacher (Gaston Modot) is trying to keep the poacher, Marceau (Julien Carette), from poaching on his pretty wife, Lisette (Paulette Dubost), unaware that his boss also has his eye on her. The passionate Jurieu, the only guest incapable of the appropriate hypocrisy, finds Christine in an embrace with a random lover (Pierre Nay), and the startled woman decides to leave Robert and go away with the aviator. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Nora Gregor
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Chained: The Story of the Third Sex (1924)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Paulette Dubost
France
Best movies:
May Fools (1990)
Inspector Maigret (1958)
Way of Youth (1959)
Mila Parély
France
Best movies:
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Angels of Sin (1943)
Odette Talazac
France
Best movies:
Two Timid Souls (1928)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Claire Gérard
Belgium
Best movies:
The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)
The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936)
Miracles Only Happen Once (1951)
Anne Mayen
Best movies:
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Lise Elina
France
Best movies:
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Marcel Dalio
France
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
How to Steal a Million (1966)
The Wing and the Thigh (1976)
Julien Carette
France
Best movies:
Agence matrimoniale (1952)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Twelve Hours to Live (1950)
Roland Toutain
France
Best movies:
The Rules of the Game (1939)
The Eternal Return (1943)
Liliom (1934)
Gaston Modot
France
Best movies:
Beauty of the Devil (1950)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Jean Renoir
France
Best movies:
The Rules of the Game (1939)
L'Amore (1948)
The Human Beast (1938)
Eddy Debray
France
Best movies:
The Story of the Fox (1930)
Ruy Blas (1948)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Pierre Nay
France
Best movies:
The Rules of the Game (1939)
La Marseillaise (1938)
Richard Francoeur
France
Best movies:
Back to the Wall (1958)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Light-Fingered George (1963)
Jenny Hélia
France
Best movies:
The Rules of the Game (1939)
The Case of Dr. Laurent (1957)
The Human Beast (1938)
Camille François
Best movies:
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Léon Larive
France
Best movies:
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
The Story of the Fox (1930)
Children of Paradise (1945)
Nicolas Amato
France
Best movies:
The Story of the Fox (1930)
Inspector Maigret (1958)
Just Out (1949)
Geo Forster
France
Best movies:
The Rules of the Game (1939)
The Murderer Lives at #21 (1942)
Zouzou (1934)