Chotard and Company

Chotard et Cie, feature film, 1932

DIRECTED BY: Jean Renoir

Chotard and Company

CAST:
Jeanne Boitel (Reine),
Fernand Charpin (Chotard),
Jeanne Lory (Marie Chotard),
Georges Pomies (Julien Collinet),
Malou Tré-ki (Augustine)

SCRIPT:
Jean Renoir

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Joseph-Louis Mundwiller,
René Ribault

Synopsis:
Chotard is a wealthy store owner whose daughter recently got married. He does not like her new husband and the new employee Julien. This changes when Julien receives an award for poetry and earns Chotard’s approval. As Julien spends more and more time writing poetry, the business suffers.

35 mm, b/w, 83 min