Elena and Her Men (1956)

Original title: Elena et les hommes
AKA: Paris Does Strange Things
Year: 1956
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes
Country: Italy | France
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance

Director: Jean Renoir

Cast:
Ingrid Bergman … Elena Sokorowska
Jean Marais … Général François Rollan
Mel Ferrer … Le comte Henri de Chevincourt
Jean Richard … Hector
Juliette Gréco … Miarka, la gitane
Pierre Bertin … Martin-Michaud
Dora Doll … Rosa la Rose
Frédéric Duvallès … Gaudin
Renaud Mary … Fleury
Jacques Morel … Duchêne
Albert Rémy … Buchez
Jean Claudio … Lionel Villaret
Mirko Ellis … Marbeau
Jacques Hilling … Lisbonne
Jacques Jouanneau … Eugène Martin-Michaud

Plot/Synopsis:

In the 1950s, French films were considered the ne plus ultra in naughtiness by certain impressionable filmgoers. It was to these movie fans that the American distributor of Jean Renoir’s Elena et les Hommes (Elena and the Men) catered when it provocatively retitled the picture Paris Does Strange Things As further grist to the mill for American publicity hacks, the film starred Ingrid Bergman, who had recently returned to Hollywood after her career was nearly ruined by a marital scandal. Actually there was nothing overtly erotic about Paris Does Strange Things. The film was a sweet romantic comedy wherein Bergman plays a poverty-stricken Polish princess, who is wooed by eligible admirers Mel Ferrer and Jean Marais. Will she marry for love, or merely to restore her wealth? The suspense is bearable. Inexpertly cut to 86 minutes for its American showings, Paris Does Strange Things was restored to its full 98 minutes in 1986 and its title reverted to Elena et les Hommes.

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