Film

The Ball

1931 · 1h 15m · Comedy · Drama

IMDb

6.8

Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches. Although the aristocracy invites them, the 'Tout-Paris' laughs behind their back. When they invite their would be new friends for a ball in their desirable new mansion, their daughter, sick and tired of being abandoned by her once loving parents, throws the invitations into the Seine.

Germaine Dermoz

Madame Kampf

Danielle Darrieux

Antoinette

Vanda Gréville

Miss Betty

Pierre de Guingand

Marcel de Brécourt

Marguerite Pierry

Aunt Isabelle

André Lefaur

Alfred Kampf

Allan Durant

Paulette Dubost

Miss Yvette, the customer

• Wilhelm ThieleDirector
• Ladislas FodorScreenplay
• Curt SiodmakScreenplay
• Irène NémirovskyNovel
• Werner R. HeymannOriginal Music Composer

Release date

September 11, 1931

Status

Released

Original language

French

Runtime

1h 15m

Genres

Comedy, Drama