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The Rules of the Game

1939·106 min

The Rules of the Game

Directed by Jean Renoir

DramaComedyRomance

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

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Octave

Robert de la Cheyniest

Christine de la Cheyniest

Marceau, le braconnier

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Jean-Paul Alphen

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André Jurieux

Paulette Dubost

Lisette, sa camériste

Edouard Schumacher, le garde-chasse

Geneviève de Marras

Jackie, nièce de Christine

Corneille, le majordome

Madame de la Plante

Madame de la Bruyère

Le général

Monsieur de St. Aubin

Richard Francœur

Monsieur La Bruyère

Le cuisinier

Radio-Reporter

L'invité sud-américain (uncredited)

Jacques Beauvais

Adolphe, un domestique (uncredited)

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Le domestique anglais (uncredited)

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The Rules of the Game (1939) is about a weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

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Jean Renoir directed The Rules of the Game (1939).

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