(0 votes, average: 0.00/10)- Country: France, Italy
- Genres: Comedy
- Release: 1958-03-25
- Director: Luis Saslavsky
- Writers: Claude Heymann , Luis Saslavsky
- Language: French | Spanish
- Stars: Yves Montand , Yves Noël , Nicole Berger , Georges Chamarat , Bernadette Lange , Georgette Anys , Gabrielle Fontan , Maurice Biraud , Paul Demange , Laurent Terzieff
- Runtime: 85 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Premier mai (France, French Republic) , Pappa på vift (Sweden) , Man to Man Talk , Premier May , C'est arrivé le premier mai (Belgium) , Eerste mei (Belgium) , Kettőnk titka (Hungary) , Festa di maggio (Italy) , Det hände en man (Finland) , すずらん祭 (Japan) , Tapahtui eräälle miehelle (Finland) , Premier mai , Le père et l'enfant , The First Day of May , 1er Mai (France, French Republic)
- Plot: Luis Saslavsky ,a minor but talented director of the fifties is like the hungry caterpillar from the celebrated book for kiddies.He ate something of many other films or directors,and yet the results are pretty good:"premier mai" retains a freshness which can still grab today's audience.He stopped and had a snack at the Clair /Carné restaurant: the local dance seems to come from "14 Juillet" (1933) or "Hotel du nord" (1938);besides ,there 's the scene from the communion meal,which we found in "Hotel du nord" too.He had a delicious meal at the Becker inn :one recognizes the populism of such works as " Antoine and Antoinette" or "Edouard et Caroline"(1947 and 1951)He had an ice cream at the Italian neorealism restaurant where cordon bleu Vittorio de Sica was a sans pareil cook.Yves Montand and his son recall sometimes a lite "Ladri di biciclette" (1948) while the old man at the police station could be a distant relative of "Umberto D" (1952).He had a coffee at the Wyler's cafe:the police station where you find shady fellows-whom the " notables" help-,whores,old men mistreated by their shameless families ,nuns,you name it,recalls that of "Detective story" (1952) The screenplay is very thin ,it's not much of a plot ,but Saslavsky made the best of it:there are a lot of characters and many subplots (actually there's no "central"plot ): two young lovers ,a father(Montand) waiting for his wife's delivery,a dive where Montand's friend(Maurice Biraud)fleeces the idiots ,a grumpy open-handed delivery man..Everything happens on the first of May and there's lily of the valley everywhere .The first of May,Labour day ,might have a political meaning ,given Yves Montand's opinions ;at the time he and Simone Signoret were the exalters of communism (he sang in Moscow,invited by the Russian government in the late fifties).There are veiled hints in this 1958 movie,but "premier mai" is definitely not a political movie.The caterpillar became a many-coloured butterfly ,made of everything it had eaten.
- IMDB:tt0050389
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Luis Saslavsky
Director
Yves Montand
Jean Meunier
Yves Noël
Nicole Berger
Annie Chapois
Georges Chamarat
Henri Bousquet
Aldo Fabrizi
le vieux camionneur
Walter Chiari
Gilbert
Bernadette Lange
Thérèse Meunier
Georgette Anys
Mme Tartet
Gabrielle Fontan
Mme Lurde
Maurice Biraud
Blanchot
Paul Demange
Laurent Terzieff
Gaby Basset
Simone Berthier
Louis Bugette
Coutan-Lambert
Marie Glory
Gina Manès
Robert Pizani
Nicole Riche
Alice Sapritch
Pierre Sergeol
Charles Bayard
Sacha Briquet
Gabrielle Doulcet
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