Le million

"You MUST see it to know how indescribably clever and enormously "smart" a movie CAN be!"

Feb 4 1931 Not Rated 1h 21m
Comedy, Musical

Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon Michel, Beatrice and Michel's artistic rival, Prosper, are hurtling through the streets of Paris on the trail of the missing jacket.

Plot

Michel, a Parisian artist, is being hounded by numerous impatient creditors. To make things worse, when he is embracing the woman whose portrait he is painting, he is surprised by his indignant fiancée Béatrice. Suddenly, Michel learns that he holds the winning ticket in the Dutch Lottery. But when he goes to retrieve the ticket from the pocket of his jacket, he finds that Béatrice has given the jacket to a stranger who was in need. Now everyone has a keen interest in finding that jacket.

Written by

Georges Berr, Marcel Guillemaud, René Clair

Directed by

René Clair

Cast

Annabella, René Lefèvre, Jean-Louis Allibert

Crew

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Production Countries

France

Production Companies

Société des films sonores Tobis

Languages

Français

Awards

1 win

Scores
# of Votes
3,931
Average Rating
7.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA