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Les Enfants du Paradis
This tragic tale centers around the ill-fated love between Baptiste, a theater mime, and Claire Reine, an actress and otherwise woman-about-town who calls herself Garance. Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: Frederick, a pretentious actor; Lacenaire, a conniving thief; and Count Eduard of Monteray. The story is further complicated by Nathalie, an actress who is in love with Baptiste. Garance and Baptiste meet when Garance is falsely accused of stealing a man's watch. Garance is forced to enter the protection of Count Eduard when she is innocently implicated in a crime committed by Lacenaire. In the intervening years of separation, both Garance and Baptiste become involved in loveless relationships with the Count and Nathalie, respectively. Baptiste is the father of a son. Returning to Paris, Garance finds that Baptiste has become a famous mime actor. Nathalie sends her child to foil their meeting...
Jean-Louis Barrault....Jean-Baptiste Debureau - un mime amoureux de Garance
Pierre Brasseur....Frédérick Lemaître - un grand acteur de théâtre
Pierre Renoir....Jéricho - un marchand d'habits
María Casares....Nathalie - une camarade de théâtre de Debureau, amoureuse de lui (as María Casarès)
Gaston Modot....Fil de Soie - un faux aveugle
Fabien Loris....Avril - le bras droit de Lacenaire
Marcel Pérès....Le directeur des Funambules
Palau....Le régisseur des Funambules (as Pierre Palau)
Etienne Decroux....Anselme Debureau - un mime, le père de Jean-Baptiste (as Étienne Decroux)
Jane Marken....Mme Hermine - la tenancière de l'Hôtel du Relais (as Jeanne Marken)
Marcelle Monthil....Marie - une actrice
Louis Florencie....Le gendarme des 'Adrets'
Habib Benglia....L'employé des bains turcs
Rognoni....Le directeur du Grand Théâtre
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