Le Diable et les Dix Commandements

      Le Diable et les Dix Commandements
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      The Ten Commandments of Gustave Doré
      Directed by Julien Duvivier
      Produced by Hoche Productions, Films Odéon,
      U.F.A, Comacico (France)
      Written by David Alexander
      Michel Audiard
      Starring Michel Simon
      Louis de Funès
      Music by Georges Garvarentz
      Guy Magenta
      Michel Magne
      Distributed by Cinédis (1962) (France)
      Union Film Distributors Inc. (1963) (USA)
      Release date(s) 14 September 1963
      Running time 143 minutes;
      126 minutes (France)
      Country France
      Language French

      Le Diable et les Dix Commandements (English: The Devil and the Ten Commandments), is a French comedy-drama film from 1963, directed by Julien Duvivier, written by David Alexander and Michel Audiard, starring Michel Simon and Louis de Funès (uncredited). The cast list includes several famous French actors: Fernandel, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Simon, Louis de Funès, Lino Ventura, Jean-Claude Brialy, Charles Aznavour, and a very young Alain Delon, but according to Bosley Crowther only one from seven episodes tickled him, in which play Louis de Funes and Jean-Claude Brialy.[1]

      The film offers a perspective on sin and salvation. A snake proclaims – voice of Claude Rich – that it is our old friend, the Devil.[1]

      Plot

      The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken. The episodes are either mini-dramas. The European version has eight episodes.

      In the first episode Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear.

      In second episode Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs.

      In the third episode Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction.

      In the fourth episode Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her. Fernandel (horse-faced) declares that he is God.

      In the fifth episode a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant.

      In the sixth episode Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss.

      In the seventh episode the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.[2]

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      Cast

      1st episode

      2nd episode

      3rd episode

      • Charles Aznavour : Denis Mayeux, brother of Catherine (the committing suicide)
      • Lino Ventura : Garigny, the procurer
      • Maurice Biraud : Louis, the inspector of police
      • Henri Vilbert : Alexandre, the restaurateur
      • Maurice Teynac : grandfather
      • Clément Harari : a man of hand of Garigny
      • Guy Mairesse or Pierre Fromont : a man of hand of Garigny
      • Yana Chouri : a woman from the restaurant

      4th episode

      • Fernandel : the madman who is taken for God alias « le père Gilbert »
      • Germaine Kerjean : grandmother
      • Gaston Modot : Auguste, grandfather
      • Claudine Maugey : Marie, small girl
      • René Clermont : father
      • Josette Vardier : mother

      5th episode

      6th episode

      7th épisode

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      See also

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      References

      1. ^ a b Bosley Crowther, Le Diable et les Dix Commandements, The New York Times, October 15, 1963
      2. ^ The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Feature Films, 1961-1970, Part 2, University of California Press, 1997, p. 251
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