French Cancan

Story

Paris around 1890. Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable but bankrupt cafe ‘Le Paravent Chinois’ featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola, goes slumming in Montmarte where the then-old-fashioned cancan is still danced. There, he conceives the idea of reviving the cancan as the feature of a new, more popular establishment…and meets Nini, a laundry worker and natural dancer, whom he hopes to star in his new show. But a tangled maze of jealousies intervenes.

Director

Jean Renoir, (*1894; †1979) set up a production company with the money he inherited from his famous father mainly to launch the career of his beautiful wife. Thus began the making of a world famous director.