Return to Life
Retour à la vie
Release: 1949-09-14
·Runtime: 120m
·★ 6.2
Drama
Comedy
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
Les Films Marceau
Les Productions Jacques Roitfeld
Cast
François Périer
as Antoine (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
Gisèle Préville
as Lilian (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
Jean Brochard
as Hotelier (segment "Le retour de Jean")
Elisabeth Hardy
as Yvonne (segment "Le retour de Louis")
Madeleine Barbulée
as (segment "Le retour de Louis") (uncredited)
Lucien Frégis
as Grocer (segment "Le retour de Louis") (uncredited)
Monette Dinay
as Juliette (segment "Le retour de Jean")
Paul Azaïs
as Captain (segment "Le retour de René") (uncredited)
Louis Florencie
as Commissioner (segment "Le retour de Jean") (uncredited)
Julien Maffre
as Soldier (segment "Le retour de René") (uncredited)
Véra Norman
as (uncredited)
Léo Lapara
as Bernard (segment "Le retour de Jean")
Florence Brière
as Gossip (segment *Le retour de Louis") (uncredited)
Jacques Hilling
as Soldier (segment "Le retour de René") (uncredited)
Bernard Blier
as Gaston (segment "Le retour de tante Emma")
Patricia Roc
as Lieutenant Evelyne (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
Noël Roquevert
as Commander (segment "Le retour de Jean")
Noël-Noël
as René (segment "Le retour de René")
Jo Dest
as German (segment "Le retour de Jean")
Jeanne Pérez
as Mother (segment "Le retour de Jean") (uncredited)
Louis Jouvet
as Jean Girard (segment "Le retour de Jean")
Nane Germon
as Henriette (segment "Le retour de tante Emma")
Lucien Nat
as Charles (segment "Le retour de tante Emma")
Jean Croué
as Uncle Hector (segment "Le retour de René")
Léonce Corne
as Virolet (segment "Le retour de Louis")
Léon Larive
as Jules (segment "Le retour de Louis")
Jean Sylvère
as Inspector (segment "Le retour de Jean") (uncredited)
Tanis Chandler
as Captain Betty (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
Maurice Schutz
as Old man (segment "Le retour de Jean")
Georges Bever
as Gaston (segment "Le retour de Jean") (uncredited)
André Carnège
as Colonel (segment "Le retour de René") (uncredited)
Max Elloy
as Old bartender (segment "Le retour d'Antoine") (uncredited)
Jane Marken
as Aunt Bertha (segment "Le retour de tante Emma")
Paul Frankeur
as Mayor (segment "Le retour de Louis")
Germaine Stainval
as Lodger (segment "Le retour de Jean") (uncredited)
François Patrice
as Trafficker (segment "Le retour de René")
Serge Reggiani
as Louis (segment "Le retour de Louis")
Héléna Manson
as Simone (segment "Le retour de tante Emma")
Janine Darcey
as Mary (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
André Bervil
as Bartender (segment "Le retour de René" (uncredited)
