Emile's Boat (french: Le Bateau d'Émile) is a 1962 French-Italian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...

directed by

Denys de La Patellière Denys de La Patellière (8 March 1921 in Nantes, France–21 July 2013) was a French film director and scriptwriter. He also directed Television series. of 92. Filmography as director * 1955 : '' Les Aristocrates'', with Pierre Fresnay * ...

and starring

Annie Girardot Annie Suzanne Girardot (25 October 193128 February 2011) was a French actress. She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often lonely women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness and reality that endeared her to women und ...

Lino Ventura Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian actor who grew up in France and starred in many French films. Born in Italy, he was raised in Paris by his mother. After a first caree ...

and

Michel Simon Michel Simon (; 9 April 1895 – 30 May 1975) was a Swiss-French actor. He appeared in many notable French films, including ''La Chienne'' (1931), ''Boudu Saved from Drowning'' (1932), '' L'Atalante'' (1934), '' Port of Shadows'' (1938), '' The ...

. It is based on the eponymous 1954 novel by

Georges Simenon Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. He published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, and was the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. Early life and education ...

. It was made at the

Epinay Studios The Epinay Studios are film production studios located in Epinay in northern Paris. It was a complex with two distinct and separate structures. The earliest was built in 1902 by Eclair Film. A second studio was controlled by the French subsidiar ...

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...

while

location shooting Location shooting is the shooting of a film or television production in a real-world setting rather than a sound stage or backlot. The location may be interior or exterior. The filming location may be the same in which the story is set (for e ...

took place in

La Rochelle La Rochelle (, , ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''La Rochéle''; oc, La Rochèla ) is a city on the west coast of France and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime department. Wit ...

. The film's sets were designed by the art director

Maurice Colasson Maurice may refer to: People * Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr * Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor * Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and ...

Cast

as Fernande *

as Émile Bouet *

as Charles-Edmond Larmentiel *

Pierre Brasseur Pierre Brasseur (22 December 1905 – 16 August 1972), born Pierre-Albert Espinasse, was a French actor. Biography The son of actors Georges Espinasse and Germaine Brasseur, the latter a cousin of Albert Brasseur; his grandfather, Jules B ...

as François Larmentiel *

Jacques Monod Jacques Lucien Monod (February 9, 1910 – May 31, 1976) was a French biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of ...

as Maître Lamazure *

Édith Scob Édith Scob (21 October 1937 – 26 June 2019) was a French film and theatre actress, best known for her role as the daughter with a disfigured face in ''Eyes Without a Face'' (1960). Early life and family Scob was born Édith Helena Vladimirovn ...

as Claude Larmentiel *

Roger Dutoit Roger Dutoit (8 February 1923 – 3 May 1988) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than thirty films from 1955 to 1982. Filmography References External links * 1923 births 1988 deaths People from Calais French male fil ...

as Patron du bistrot *

Joëlle Bernard Joëlle Bernard (1928–1977) was a French film and television actress.Turk p.442 Partial filmography * ''Lunegarde'' (1946) * '' Quai des Orfèvres'' (1947) - Ginette (uncredited) * ''To the Eyes of Memory'' (1948) - (uncredited) * '' Miquette ...

as La patronne de La Marine * Roger Pelletier as Simon Mougin * Etienne Bierry as Marcelin *

André Certes André — sometimes transliterated as Andre — is the French and Portuguese form of the name Andrew, and is now also used in the English-speaking world. It used in France, Quebec, Canada and other French-speaking countries. It is a variation ...

as Lucien Beauvoisin * Jean Solar as Albert Vicart * Pierre Vielhescaze as Le marchand de radio * Guy Humbert as L'agent *

Marcel Bernier Marcel may refer to: People * Marcel (given name), people with the given name Marcel * Marcel (footballer, born August 1981), Marcel Silva Andrade, Brazilian midfielder * Marcel (footballer, born November 1981), Marcel Augusto Ortolan, Brazilian ...

as Plevedic *

Yves Gabrielli Yves may refer to: * Yves, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime department in France * Yves (given name), including a list of people with the name * ''Yves'' (single album), a single album by Loona * ''Yves'' (film), a 2019 Fren ...

as L'employé d'Air France * Derville as Léon * Jean-Louis Tristan as Le valet

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* 1962 drama films 1962 films Films based on works by Georges Simenon Films based on Belgian novels French drama films Italian drama films Films set in La Rochelle Films shot at Epinay Studios 1960s French-language films Films directed by Denys de La Patellière Films with screenplays by Michel Audiard 1960s Italian films 1960s French films {{1960s-drama-film-stub