Le Bal

  • Music
  • Comedy
  • Drama
12/21/1983
112
NR

Storyline

In a French nightclub, choreographed song and dance routines are performed, rather than a streamlined narrative. They tell the story of Parisian culture and politics from the 1920s—1980s. A disparate, anachronistic series of characters, including an ordinary waiter, a Nazi collaborator, resistance fighters, and 1960s student protestors gather to celebrate and satirize 20th century France's icons, demons, and social changes.

Director:
Ettore Scola
Writers:
Ettore Scola
Furio Scarpelli
Ruggero Maccari
  • rock 'n' roll
  • 1970s
  • world war ii
  • liberation
  • nightclub
  • musical
  • revue
  • racism
  • air raid
  • post world war ii
  • dance hall
  • nazi occupation
  • 1920s
  • 1940s
  • 1980s
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • ballroom
  • non-narrative
  • 1930s
  • occupied france (1940-44)
  • social allegory
  • single-set
  • french art
  • 20th century

Videos

Cast

  • Marc Berman
    L'aristo / Le planqué / Le collaborationiste
  • Christophe Allwright
    le jeune homme de banlieue
  • Étienne Guichard
    le jeune professur
  • Régis Bouquet
    le patron de la salle
  • Francesco De Rosa
    Toni
  • Arnault Lecarpentier
    le jeune typographe
  • Liliane Delval
    l'alcoolique
  • Martine Chauvin
    la jeune fleuriste
  • Danielle Rochard
    la livreuse d'une modiste
  • Nani Noël
    la fille de joie / la jeune juive / la refugiée
  • Aziz Arbia
    le jeune ouvrier
  • Geneviève Rey-Penchenat
    l'aristo
  • Michel van Speybroeck
    L'homme qui vient de loin / Jean Gabin
  • Rossana Di Lorenzo
    La dame-pipi
  • Michel Toty
    L'ouvrier spécialisé
  • Raymonde Heudeline
    L'ouvrière

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