Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.

Jean Gabin
as Henri Danglard

Françoise Arnoul
as Nini

María Félix
as Lola

Anna Amendola
as Esther Georges

Jean-Roger Caussimon
as Baron Walter

Dora Doll
as La Génisse

Giani Esposito
as Prince Alexandre

Gaston Gabaroche
as Oscar

Jacques Jouanneau
as Bidon

Jean Parédès
as Coudrier
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This is quite an entertaining story about monsieur "Danglard" (Jean Gabin) who runs a chic little Parisian café but hasn't two sous to rub together. He's ambitious though, a bit of a dreamer, an so when out on a jaunt with belly-dancing mistress "Lola" (Maria Félix) to the city's seedy Montmatre dis...