Un Partie de Campagne
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Jean Renoir
Director
Sylvia Bataille
Henriette
Jeanne Marken
Madame Dufour
Georges D'arnoux
Henri
Andre Gabriello
Jean Renoir
Film Details
Also Known As
Country Excursion, Day in the Country, La Scampagnata, Partie de campagne, Scampagnata, Un Partie de Campagne
Genre
Drama
Comedy
Foreign
Release Date
1936
Technical Specs
Duration
45m
Synopsis
Director
Jean Renoir
Director
Cast
Sylvia Bataille
Henriette
Jeanne Marken
Madame Dufour
Georges D'arnoux
Henri
Andre Gabriello
Jean Renoir
Jacques Becker
Jacques Borel
Pierre Lestringuez
Paul Temps
Gabrielle Fontan
Marguerite Houlle
Alain Renoir
Crew
Yves Allegret
Assistant Director
Jacques Becker
Assistant Director
Jean Bourgoin
Camera Operator
Pierre Braunberger
Producer
Joseph De Bretagne
Sound
Jacques B Brunius
Assistant Director
Henri Cartier-bresson
Assistant Director
Guy De Maupassant
From Story
Roger Desormiere
Music Conductor
Robert Gys
Other
Claude Heymann
Assistant Director
Marguerite Houlle
Editor
Joseph Kosma
Music
Eli Lotar
Camera Assistant
Claude Renoir
Photography
Jean Renoir
Screenplay
Albert Viguier
Camera Assistant
Luchino Visconti
Other
Luchino Visconti
Props
Roger Woog
Production
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Movie Clip
Film Details
Also Known As
Country Excursion, Day in the Country, La Scampagnata, Partie de campagne, Scampagnata, Un Partie de Campagne
Genre
Drama
Comedy
Foreign
Release Date
1936
Technical Specs
Duration
45m
Articles
A Day in the Country
Filmed in the summer of 1936, Jean Renoir's short feature A Day in the Country (Partie de campagne) (1936) is only 41 minutes in duration. After a number of successes, producer Pierre Braunberger took Renoir up on the idea of adapting a short Guy de Maupassant tale without big stars, to make "a short film with the same care as a long film." The lyrical tale observes a family's day-trip holiday picnic away from town. Two local rogues see an amorous opportunity when the bored mother and daughter are more or less abandoned for the afternoon -- the self-satisfied father and fiancé first go fishing and then take a long nap in the sun. No confrontations or accusations mar this easygoing idyll; the only overt message is that life and love follow no set rules - a forbidden liaison may also become a cherished memory. The film's sunny, calm images actively seek an impressionist effect, which is appropriate because the locations on the Loing River near Marlotte are the same as those once used by the director's father, the famous painter Pierre Auguste Renoir. Critics naturally related A Day in the Country to the director's artistic heritage. Reviewers also repeated a rumor that Renoir had experimented with improvised scenes and dialogue. Collected outtakes show that the actors worked from a set script and dialogue; the only alterations were made necessary when unseasonable rain forced Renoir to change his plans. When Renoir turned to a bigger, more remunerative feature project he left the film unfinished, and when the war came it was set aside. Renoir was still working in his Hollywood 'exile' when producer Braunberger finished the editing. A Day in the Country was first screened in May of 1946, a full ten years later. It was not seen in the United States until 1950, when distributor Joseph Burstyn combined it with Marcel Pagnol's Jofroi (1934) and Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle (1948) as the feature release Ways of Love. Renoir's picture was all but forgotten in the wake of a major censorship scandal. The politically conservative Cardinal Spellman decried Rossellini's The Miracle as a "vile and harmful picture ... a despicable affront to every Christian." The resulting Supreme Court decision made history by giving motion pictures the same First Amendment protections as those enjoyed by books and newspapers.
A Day in the Country
Filmed in the summer of 1936, Jean Renoir's short feature A Day in the Country (Partie de campagne) (1936) is only 41 minutes in duration. After a number of successes, producer Pierre Braunberger took Renoir up on the idea of adapting a short Guy de Maupassant tale without big stars, to make "a short film with the same care as a long film." The lyrical tale observes a family's day-trip holiday picnic away from town. Two local rogues see an amorous opportunity when the bored mother and daughter are more or less abandoned for the afternoon -- the self-satisfied father and fiancé first go fishing and then take a long nap in the sun. No confrontations or accusations mar this easygoing idyll; the only overt message is that life and love follow no set rules - a forbidden liaison may also become a cherished memory. The film's sunny, calm images actively seek an impressionist effect, which is appropriate because the locations on the Loing River near Marlotte are the same as those once used by the director's father, the famous painter Pierre Auguste Renoir. Critics naturally related A Day in the Country to the director's artistic heritage. Reviewers also repeated a rumor that Renoir had experimented with improvised scenes and dialogue. Collected outtakes show that the actors worked from a set script and dialogue; the only alterations were made necessary when unseasonable rain forced Renoir to change his plans. When Renoir turned to a bigger, more remunerative feature project he left the film unfinished, and when the war came it was set aside. Renoir was still working in his Hollywood 'exile' when producer Braunberger finished the editing. A Day in the Country was first screened in May of 1946, a full ten years later. It was not seen in the United States until 1950, when distributor Joseph Burstyn combined it with Marcel Pagnol's Jofroi (1934) and Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle (1948) as the feature release Ways of Love. Renoir's picture was all but forgotten in the wake of a major censorship scandal. The politically conservative Cardinal Spellman decried Rossellini's The Miracle as a "vile and harmful picture ... a despicable affront to every Christian." The resulting Supreme Court decision made history by giving motion pictures the same First Amendment protections as those enjoyed by books and newspapers.
