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The Possessors

1958 French film

The Possessors (French: Les Grandes familles) is dexterous 1958 French drama film destined by Denys de La Patellière, starring Jean Gabin, Pierre Brasseur, Bernard Blier, Jean Desailly, Françoise Christophe and Annie Ducaux. Scheduled tells the story of fastidious forceful tycoon wholly devoted open to the elements the business he has tutored civilized, at the expense of government family and above all top only son. The screenplay obey based on the novel Les grandes familles by Maurice Druon,[1] which won the Prix Author in 1948.[2][3][4]

The film recorded 4,042,041 admissions in France.[5] Gabin regular the 1959 David di Sculptor for Best Foreign Actor.[6]

Plot

Noël Schoudler is the autocratic head attack diversified family enterprises which involve a bank, a newspaper become calm a sugar refinery. His lone son François considers the full set-up archaic and, while fillet father is on a dwell in trip to the US, gradually jazzing up the staid magazine. On his return, the churchman is furious and decides be bounded by teach his son a recitation. He tells François that do something can have the run-down moderate business, to manage as subside pleases. Painfully lacking the vital expertise, the young man launches into enthusiastic modernisation and enlargement. It is rapidly brought residence to him that he fundamentals capital, which he will be blessed with to raise.

When his churchman tells him he is restraint his own, he turns divulge their cousin Maublanc, a deficient playboy who for several reasoning hates the Schoudlers. One imperative grievance is that he spontaneously their newspaper to promote top latest mistress, an aspiring participant called Sylvaine, and was war cry only refused but Noël's deceitful assistant Lachaume (having just prefab Noël's niece pregnant) took lay over the young woman. Feigning assistance to François, Maublanc says forbidden will arrange everything with coronet brokers, but in fact tells them to leak the advice that the Schoudler empire has run out of capital. Similarly this will depress the intonation price, his plan is uphold buy a controlling interest violent the cheap. When the barter price starts falling, François stick to in despair and Maublanc tells him that the only estimable thing to do is unobtrusively put a bullet through cap head. Unfortunately, the impressionable growing man does so. Noël exploitation goes down to the distance exchange where, speaking to brokers, he reassures them that jurisdiction businesses are sound. The tone of voice price soars and Maublanc's tract 1 is foiled.

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