Le déjeuner sur l'herbe / Consortium Pathé présente ; une comédie de Jean Renoir ; scénario, dialogues, mise en scène, Jean Renoir ; direction de production, Ginette Courtois-Doynel ; production, Compagnie Jean Renoir.
Paul Meurisse, Blavette, André Brunot, Fernand Sardou, Catherine Rouvel, Paulette Dubost, Jean Claudio, Régine Blaess, Ingrid Nordine. Originally released as a motion picture in 1959. Special features: "Autour du Déjeuner sur l'herbe" (30 min.), a documentary with Roger Viry-Babel and Jean-Pierre Spiero ; filmographies of the director and actors.
Summary:
Comedy about a professor running for the "Presidency of Europe." His political platform advocates artificial insemination as the way to improving the future of the human race. His views on reproduction are radically altered when he meets a robust peasant girl with a burning desire to have a child.
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