People of No Importance

People of No Importance
Directed by	Henri Verneuil
Starring	Jean Gabin ; Françoise Arnoul
Release date	15 February 1956;
Running time	1h 41min
Country	France
Language	French

People of No Importance (French: Des gens sans importance) is a 1956 French drama film directed by Henri Verneuil. Set entirely among ordinary working people, it tells the story of an unhappily married long-distance lorry driver who starts an affair with a young waitress at a restaurant where he stops frequently, but tragedy intervenes.

Plot

Jean is a long-distance lorry driver whose usual run is from Paris, where he lives with his unsympathetic wife and children, to Bordeaux. A favourite stop is La Caravane, a roadside restaurant where he is attracted to Clo, a pretty and affectionate young woman who is estranged from her family and survives by waitressing. Anxious to be with him, she gives up her job and goes to Paris, where she finds work as a chambermaid in a sordid hotel used by prostitutes. She also finds that she is pregnant, which the hotel manager resolves by sending her for an illegal abortion. Jean meanwhile has been sacked, partly because his tachograph showed too much time spent at La Caravane, and as soon as he finds another job he arranges to take her home in his lorry. But septicaemia has set in and, though he stops on the way and calls an ambulance, she dies.

Cast

Jean Gabin : Jean Viard, lorry driver and lover of Clo
Françoise Arnoul : Clotilde Brachet, called Clo, waitress
Pierre Mondy : Pierrot Berty, Jean's co-driver
Paul Frankeur : Émile Barchandeau, owner of La Caravane
Yvette Etiévant : Solange Viard, Jean's wife
Dany Carrel : Jacqueline Viard, Jean's teenage daughter
Lila Kedrova : Madame Vacopoulos, hotel manager

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References

External links

People of No Importance on IMDb

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