Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play 1930s comedy starring Michel Simon as Boudu a tramp saved from drowning in the Seine by a wealthy bookseller who provides him shelter in his bourgeois household The unruly vagrant causes havoc in this civilised environment seducing the bookseller&s wife & his mistress as well as striking it lucky in the lottery Having brought anarchy to the middle class family he eventually begins to pine for his old life & decides to return to the freedom of the river This classic of French cinema was directed by Jean Renoir & later remade in Hollywood as & Down & Out in Beverly Hills& (1986)