Le Bal (film)

Le Bal
DVD cover
Directed by	Ettore Scola
Produced by	Franco Committeri
Written by	Jean-Claude Penchenat Ruggero Maccari Furio Scarpelli Ettore Scola
Starring	Étienne Guichard
Cinematography	Ricardo Aronovich
Editing by	Raimondo Crociani
Release date(s)	21 December 1983
Running time	110 minutes
Country	Italy France
Language	No dialogue

Le bal (French pronunciation: ​[lə bal], meaning "The ball") is a 1983 Italian-Franco-Algerian film without dialogue directed by Ettore Scola that represents a fifty-year story of French society by way of a ballroom in France.

Cast

• Étienne Guichard as Le jeune étudiant de province / Le jeune professeur
• Régis Bouquet as Le patron de la salle / Le paysan
• Francesco De Rosa as Toni, le jeune serveur
• Arnault LeCarpentier as Le jeune typographe / L'étudiant
• Liliane Delval as La fille aux cheveux longs / L'alcoolique (as Liliane Léotard)
• Martine Chauvin as La jeune fleuriste / L'étudiante
• Danielle Rochard as La livreuse d'une modiste
• Nani Noël as La fille de joie / La jeune juive / La refugiée / La jeune qui peint ses basses
• Aziz Arbia as Le jeune ouvrier
• Marc Berman as L'aristo / Le planqué / Le collaborationiste
• Geneviève Rey-Penchenat as L'aristo
• Michel van Speybroeck as L'homme qui vient de loin / Jean Gabin
• Rossana Di Lorenzo as La dame-pipi
• Michel Toty as L'ouvrier spécialisé
• Raymonde Heudeline as L'ouvrière
• Jean-Claude Penchenat as La 'croix de feu'

Accolades

The film won the 1984 César Award for Best Film ex-æquo (tie) with À nos amours. It also was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, representing Algeria (rather than France). At the 34th Berlin International Film Festival, Ettore Scola won the Silver Bear for Best Director.

External links

• Le Bal at the Internet Movie Database