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The Rules of the Game

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The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all against the backdrop of a looming war. From TMDB

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2025

    Jean Renoir is his film "The Rules of the Game" (with Roland Toutain and Nora Gregor) - BOTD

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2026

    Coco Chanel (with scenes from the Renoir film "The Rules of the Game", costumes designed by Chanel) - BOTD

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  • Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2025

    Watching Jean Renoir's 1939 French satirical comedy-drama The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu). #FilmSky This film is a rife with Orientalism (rich French people in the 1930's) but the Tyrolean dance performed by the hosts in costume blends Germanic, Austrian, and Italian influences. It's cool.

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2025

    Coco Chanel (with scenes from the Renoir film "The Rules of the Game", costumes designed by Chanel) - BOTD

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2026

    Jean Renoir is his film "The Rules of the Game" (with Roland Toutain and Nora Gregor) - BOTD

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  • Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 16, 2024

    Trouble in Paradise is reaching the point where it starts to vie with The Rules of the Game, Casablanca, and Holiday for the title of my favorite movie. The vast majority of days, Rules of the Game holds that spot. But catch me on another and it could be any of those.

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  • Charlotte Allen @lotty.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 18, 2024

    #MovieMadness Day 18. Your favorite foreign language movie La Règle Du Jeu (The Rules of the Game) is packed full of romance (farce?), drama, and scathing satire. An absolute treat.

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  • D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 26, 2026

    Went to see the most timely old movie tonight at @voguetheatersf.bsky.social, "The Rules of the Game." A beautifully orchestrated comedy with the top talent of the day, filmed as the Nazis were dismantling Europe. A sad context for an elegant comedy. "Kiss me. On the mouth, like a lover."

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  • J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 19, 2024

    Coco Chanel (with scenes from the Renoir film "The Rules of the Game", costumes designed by Chanel) - BOTD

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  • SvenThe @sventhe.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 15, 2026

    “The Rules of the Game stands above all other films because, quite simply, it has it all. If one movie can stand for all others, represent all that film can be, that film is The Rules of the Game.” – Paul Schrader Jean Renoir #botd by Richard Avedon (1972) #JeanRenoir #PaulSchrader #Photography

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  • SvenThe @sventhe.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2025

    Jean Renoir by Richard Avedon, 1972 “The Rules of the Game stands above all other films because, quite simply, it has it all. If one movie can stand for all others, represent all that film can be, that film is The Rules of the Game.” – Paul Schrader #JeanRenoir #PaulSchrader #FilmSky #Photography

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  • Phoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 30, 2024

    Tonight on TCM #TCM THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939) I'm often asked what my favorite film of all time is. The answer is always this one, Jean Renoir's masterpiece. More timely now than ever. A biting satire of the upper class that never loses its love of humanity. Essential viewing.

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  • Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 12, 2024

    The Rules of the Game—which, obliquely, has some things to say about the same, then-still-developing situation—is my favorite movie. But Casablanca is the movie I point it to say, This is why we do this. This is the pinnacle of craft, art, and purpose.

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  • Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2025

    With the character Octave and his performance in “The Rules of the Game,” (La Règle du jeu)Jean Renoir virtually assured the film’s “failure in its own time while assuring its place in the future.” On the enduring power of Renoir’s 1939 film. It's Le Nozze di Figaro on film.

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  • Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2026

    "There a movie called 'The Rules of the Game.' And there's a great quote from that movie." overcast.fm/+BmEPOwtek

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  • Dr Pop Culture USA @drpopcultureusa.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    July 7, 1939: "The Rules of the Game", French film directed by Jean Renoir, starring Nora Gregor and Paulette Dubost, premieres in Paris.

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  • Dr. Twink, Microplastic Surgeon @subtlebeast.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2025

    4 photos from a film you consider a masterpiece🎬 The Rules of the Game (1939)

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  • tonkord @tonkord.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2025

    Choose one film from each of your 100 favorite directors. Name of the film and director, along with a still. 15/100 Film: The Rules of the Game (1939) Director: Jean Renoir #Filmsky #MovieSky #MovieChallenge #FilmChallenge

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  • Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 22, 2025

    The only movie I can think of that uses the depth of the frame as much or as well as Citizen Kane is The Rules of the Game. Both discard the idea of a flat plane on which to show action in favor of upstage and downstage, actors and action happening on both.

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  • ladyday93tjfgg.bsky.social @ladyday93tjfgg.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    Speaking of Renoir, his son Jean's film The Rules of the Game will air on TCM later on this month in the overnight. #AnEveningOfChuckJonesing #TCMParty #GayPurree

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  • Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2026

    When I was in college, one of my professors told me that "The Rules of the Game" was the second-greatest film ever made and "The Grand Illusion" was the best. They certainly should rank high on any list of whatever length. (which reminds me that I need to rewatch both, as I regularly do)

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  • Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2026

    🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 7 July 1939, #JeanRenoir's biting social satire LA RÈGLE DU JEU [THE RULES OF THE GAME], starring Nora Gregor and Paulette Dubost, premiered in Paris. Afterwards, the wartime French government banned it for being 'demoralising'. It's a masterpiece.

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  • Jesse Russell @cometstarmoon.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2024

    An oddball week of films. - The Rules of the Game - John Wick (rewatch) - Carry-On - Psyched by the 4D Witch #lastfourwatched #lastfour #letterboxd

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  • Lost in Criterion @lostincriterion.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 6, 2024

    8 years ago this week we recorded our episode on Renoir's The Rules of the Game, and the podcast turned toward what it is today. The film's central lesson remains: "The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons." www.podbean.com/ew/pb-vbhqg-...

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  • Phoef Sutton @phoefsutton.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 14, 2024

    Tonight on TCM THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939) Here it is: my favorite movie of all time. Jean Renoir's brilliant social satire. Brilliant performances by Marcel Dalio and Renoir himself. A great, great film made all the greater by Renoir's love of the characters he satirizes. Essential viewing. 🎥

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  • Kinetograph @[email protected]Mastodon · Sep 15, 2023

    The Rules of the Game (1939) directed by Jean Renoir #BOTD #JeanRenoir #TheRulesOfTheGame #film #movies

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  • Alexis Raine @steb.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 29, 2025

    The Rules of the Game (1939) great movie, undeniably a classic, but I'm too stupid to follow everything it's doing so it didn't quite land for me. Watch it, by all means, I'm just bad at watching movies

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  • Trailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2024

    Trailers From Hell Guru Allan Arkush's weeklong trailer commentary celebration of the great Jean Renoir concludes today with his tragicomedy The Rules Of The Game: trailersfromhell.com/the-rules-of...

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  • Portuguese Village Elder @hellsdaydream.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 4, 2023

    Also, multiple mainstream movies have killed animals for the movie. The Rules of the Game, Apocalypse Now, Wake in Fright, Come and See, and so on. So it's kinda a double-standard people have with this movie when talking about the animal deaths.

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  • John DeVore @johndevore.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2026

    All new Mercifully Short™ movie reviews: The End of Oak Street, Spider-Man 4, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Tony, Baby Doll, Straight Time, The Gunfighter, and The Rules of the Game READ/SHARE/SUBSCRIBE/NAMASTE: 150wordreviews.substack.com/p/150-word-r...

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  • Knepherbird @knepherbird.comBluesky · Jun 6, 2026

    THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939) INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (2013) Any David Fincher movie other than ALIEN 3 (1992)

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  • Gray Whitten @graywhitten.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 22, 2026

    Very very here for the season finale of Prof. Matthew Bernstein’s Farewell Film Series with Renoir’s THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939)! Another first-time watch for me. 📽️🇫🇷

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  • I'm Against It @antifascista-55.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 19, 2026

    I lucked into (heh) seeing 'Coup de Chance' on Tubi... Woody Allen's very French (& first French-language) film. A young woman bored with her husband & his friends' haut-bourgeois materialism falls into an affair with an old schoolmate. Hints of 'The Rules of the Game' here; very nice. 📽️ #filmsky

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  • B.C. Wallin @bcwallin.comBluesky · Jan 15, 2026

    What does The Rules of the Game or Thumbelina have to do with the movie Steve Jobs? Find out in 9 days

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  • Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2025

    There is no better film than THE RULES OF THE GAME. To my core, nothing comes close. I’ve seen multiple thousands of movies, THE RULES OF THE GAME is it. More movies should strive to be as good. It’s literally the only film I will not blanche about that. Like, RIO BRAVO is Hollywood masterpiece.

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  • Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2025

    🎞 #OTD in #Film #History 7 July 1939, #JeanRenoir's biting social satire LA RÈGLE DU JEU [THE RULES OF THE GAME], starring Nora Gregor and Paulette Dubost, premiered in Paris. Afterwards, the wartime French government banned it for being 'demoralising.' It's a masterpiece.

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  • Ryan Lohner (he/him) @ryanlohner.bsky.socialBluesky · May 8, 2025

    4 photos from a film you consider a masterpiece🎬 The Rules of the Game (1939)

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  • Michael Reed @mikeyreed.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 21, 2025

    #NowWatching The Rules of the Game (1939, France) with Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély. Intrigue, rivalries, and human weakness on display at the cusp of WWII at a hunting lodge of an aristocrat. A Jean Renoir film.

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  • pugpeople.bsky.social @pugpeople.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2026

    I have tried multiple times to watch The Rules of The Game. Last time I made it halfway through before I turned it off. Sure there is some pioneering film photography techniques going on and maybe character development. It’s not enough to make me force myself to suffer through this snooze fest.

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  • teamrickandilsa.bsky.social @teamrickandilsa.bsky.socialBluesky · May 21, 2026

    Purchases from the Criterion sale: -Body Heat -Godzilla Vs. Biollante -The Rules of the Game -Trouble In Paradise Name the film festival that I’m programming these films for. Wrong answers only!

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  • Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Pranks-to-rama @prankster36.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2026

    There’s a bit in the movie The Rules of the Game as everything is spiralling comedically out of control along multiple vectors where the head of the household snaps at his servant to “put an end to this farce!” And the servant says “which one, sir?” That’s what logging on feels like these days

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  • Film Library & Media Archives @mediaarchives-uoft.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 4, 2025

    A HUGE thank you to everyone who packed our first screening of Pop-Up Cinematheque for season 2! Professor Charlie Keil provided an insightful introduction to and fascinating post-film discussion of The Rules of the Game! We can't wait for our next screening on Nov. 17th!

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  • Simon Taylor @simon-taylor.netBluesky · Aug 17, 2025

    📽️ Movie Challenge 2025 - Week 33 Watch a movie about opposites. This week I watched: Freakier Friday (2025) My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010) The Rules of the Game (1939)

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  • MBR @flame89.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 11, 2025

    There’s a moment in Renoir’s film The Rules of the Game where one of the main characters shouts out to his servant “Corneille! Put an end to this farce?” And Corneille replies “Which one, your lordship?”

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  • Tom Nissley @tomnissley.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2025

    Favorite film from every decade: 20s One Week 30s The Rules of the Game 40s Notorious 50s Some Like It Hot 60s The Manchurian Candidate 70s All the President's Men 80s Raising Arizona 90s Topsy-Turvy 00s Man on Wire 10s the trailer for Inherent Vice 20s Summer of Soul #FilmSky

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  • It's Bright in Here @os-inmanbright.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2025

    (6) oration, and discussed how neither one was on scene but a recount or a recount of a recount of a recount, with lots of room for bias upon bias and dramatic retelling. In other astronomy study we finished up talking about Voyager 1 & 2, and in Movie history we looked at The Rules of the Game.

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  • Robin Aldan 🇺🇦 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ ♥️ 🍾 🏳️‍🌈 @robinaldan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 10, 2025

    Favorite film from every decade: 30s The Rules of the Game 40s Casablanca 50s Singin’ in the Rain 60s One, Two, Three 70s Cousin, Cousine 80s I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing 90s Waking Ned Devine 00s Lost in Translation 10s Arrival 20s Past Lives

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  • In a Place Like This - Movie Podcast @aplacelikethis.bsky.socialBluesky · May 29, 2025

    Today's Movie: La règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game) 1939 / Satirical Comedy-Drama / France D: Jean Renoir W: Jean Renoir, Carl Koch Film Collection

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  • Revolutionary_Jack the Digger 🕷🕸! 🪏 @elvingjack.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 17, 2025

    There are pheasant hunts done for real in Renoir's The Rules of the Game among others. And then you have stuff like Roar, a movie made with good intentions of lion conservation but endangered the cast and crew by having them interact with big cats who aren't housepets. 3/

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  • waterybint1952.bsky.social @waterybint1952.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2025

    Jean Renoir in his 1939 film “The Rules of the Game”.

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  • Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 31, 2025

    And that line is voiced by a character played by Renoir himself in his 1939 film "The Rules of the Game"

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  • Leaving FilmStruck @leavingfilmstrk.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2024

    Three of my favorite French films were released in 1939: LE JOUR SE LEVE and THE RULES OF THE GAME and THERE'S NO TOMORROW. What years other than 1939 do people cite as best years for film?

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  • Josh Bell @signalbleed.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2024

    It's another all-time classic in this week's Awesome Movie Year 1939 episode, featuring Jean Renoir's 'The Rules of the Game.'

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  • Dana Lemaster @danalemaster.comBluesky · Feb 22, 2024

    I’ve seen this film so many times, find something new every time I watch (which will be happening soon-we recorded it). Didn’t realize the Rules of the Game connection but it makes sense. Thanks as always, #TCMParty. #GosfordPark

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  • Kevin White (Remastered) @kwhitesays.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2023

    Fantastic piece. I reluctantly canceled my DVD Dot Com A Netflix Company subscription after too many undelivered and lost discs, but I still remember first signing up in 2007 and going crazy adding Criterion discs to my queue. First movie: The Rules of the Game, and I was off to the races.

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  • StarlessRedLark @peppermintdiana.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 1, 2026

    I finally watched Jacques Tati's Playtime last night and I'm still trying to figure out how in the hell Tati directed this. It's like Renoir directing some of the big movement scenes in The Rules of the Game, but the whole movie is just one big mass of movement.

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  • Greasy Popcorn™ @greasypopcorn.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2026

    🍿 Movie Industry Milestone: On this day on July 7, 1939, French drama/comedy, La Règle du jeu (“The Rules of the Game”), premiered in Paris. The film starred Nora Gregor, Paulette Dubost, Mila Parély, Marcel Dalio, Julien Carette, Roland Toutain, Gaston Modot, Pierre Magnier and Jean Renoir.

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  • Mark von Wahlde @markvonwahlde.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2026

    The Rules of the Game (1939) is the definitive movie about America. Lol.

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  • The Rotting Zombie @therottingzombie.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 27, 2026

    The Rules of the Game (2026) - horror film review. 8 strangers are abducted and forced to play a twisted game of chess where someone has to die in real life for each of the pieces that get taken. A simple idea executed well. therottingzombie.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

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  • movietimetoday @movietimetoday.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2026

    The 46 Greatest French films of All Time 1. The Rules of the Game (1939) 2. Children of Paradise (1945) 3. La Haine (1995) 4. Amélie (2001) 5. The 400 Blows (1959) #Frenchfilms #wolink #movietimetoday www.movietimetoday.com/archives/12762

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Marcel Dalio
Robert de la Cheyniest
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Nora Gregor
Christine de la Cheyniest
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Julien Carette
Marceau, le braconnier
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Roland Toutain
André Jurieux
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Paulette Dubost
Lisette, sa camériste
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Gaston Modot
Edouard Schumacher, le garde-chasse
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Mila Parély
Geneviève de Marras
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Anne Mayen
Jackie, nièce de Christine

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