Les Gauloises Bleues
Cast & Crew
Michel Cournot
Annie Girardot
Jean-pierre Kalfon
Nella Bielski
Bruno Crémer
Henri Garcin
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Synopsis
Wandering into a Paris tobacco shop for a pack of Gauloises Bleues cigarettes, 30-year-old Ivan meets Jeanne, a young salesgirl as lonely and impoverished as himself. After a brief courtship, Jeanne leaves her job to marry Ivan. Plagued by financial difficulties, however, the union soon becomes an unhappy one, and Ivan buys a rope in case he should want to hang himself. After committing an unspecified crime for which he is sentenced to death, Ivan is released because there is no room for him in the crowded prisons. Driven to despair, the couple decide to divorce, but Jeanne becomes pregnant. When he takes his wife to a maternity clinic, Ivan sits in the waiting room and recalls his unhappy childhood. Arrested for stealing at the age of 6, Ivan is placed in a state institution. Although his ailing mother pleads with a judge for her son's release, her request is denied because she has a criminal record . Ivan's reverie is interrupted by a nurse who informs him that his child has been born dead.
Director
Michel Cournot
Cast
Annie Girardot
Jean-pierre Kalfon
Nella Bielski
Bruno Crémer
Henri Garcin
Jean Lescot
Georges Demestre
François Périer
Anne Wiazemsky
Marcel Pagliero
Tsilla Chelton
José Varella
Tanya Lopert
Karina Gondy
Elizabeth Braconnier
Francis Girod
Claude Degliame
Sofie Maltzeff
Dominique Vielleville
Tania Becker
Maxmilien Decroux
Isabelle Felder
André Ancel
Jacques Baudry
Crew
Jean Baronnet
Aïda Carange
Michel Cournot
Georges Dancigers
Roger Delattre
Philippe Fourastié
E. Freess
Agnès Guillemot
Pierre Laurent
Claude Lelouch
Alain Levent
Guy Littaye
C. Maltzeff
Armand Marco
Jacques Maumont
Alexandre Mnouchkine
Claudio Monteverdi
Krzysztof Penderecki
Roger Robert
Suzanne Schiffman
E. Watteville
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Location scenes filmed in and around Paris. Opened in Paris in August 1968.
