• Rating:
• Genre: Drama
• Movie Type: Message Movie
• Director: Norbert Carbonneaux
• Release Year: 1972
• Country: FR
• Run Time: 80 minutes

Plot

This French film updates a classic tale by Voltaire and uses it as an allegory in which divisions of race and class are explored. In the film, Ingenu (Renaud Verly) is a native of India, working in another country. His charms beguile the youngest daughter of an upper-class family, and she falls in love with him and wants to marry him. This upsets the family for several reasons: he is not wealthy, he is dark-skinned, and he is not of their class. Indeed, before he came along, the daughter was slated to marry a wealthy business tycoon who, even though he was not of the "right" class, at least had money and the right skin color. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Cast

Hubert Deschamps - Lebailly
Jess Hahn - Captain
Jean Lefebvre - Abbe
Corinne Marchand - Elizabeth
Renaud Verley - Ingenu
Marianne Eggerickx - Saint-Yves

Credit

Norbert Carbonneaux - Director; Norbert Carbonneaux - Screenwriter; Georges Delerue - Composer (Music Score); Didier Tarot - Cinematographer; Voltaire - Short Story Author