Patrick Auffay as René Bigey, Antoine's best friend.Guy Decomble as Sourpuss, schoolteacher.Claire Maurier as Gilberte Doinel, Antoine's mother.Albert Rémy as Julien Doinel, Antoine's stepfather.(Antoine loves Balzac and in a school essay he describes "the death of my grandfather", in a close paraphrase of Balzac from memory.) He steals a Royal typewriter from his stepfather's workplace to finance his plans to leave home, but, having been unable to sell it, is apprehended while trying to return it. He finally quits school after his teacher accuses him of plagiarizing Balzac. Misunderstood by his parents for playing truant from school and stealing and tormented in school for discipline problems by his teacher (such as writing on the classroom wall, and later falsely explaining his absence as having been due to his mother's death), Antoine frequently runs away from both places. It ranked 13th in the directors' poll on the same list.Īntoine Doinel is a young boy growing up in Paris. The 400 Blows is widely considered one of the best French films in the history of cinema in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of the greatest films ever made, it was ranked 39th.
The film had 4.1 million admissions in France, making it Truffaut's most successful film in his home country. The 400 Blows received numerous awards and nominations, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director, the OCIC Award, and a Palme d'Or nomination in 1959, and was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1960.
Filmed on location in Paris and Honfleur, it is the first in a series of five films in which Léaud plays the semi-autobiographical character. Written by Truffaut and Marcel Moussy, the film is about Antoine Doinel, a misunderstood adolescent in Paris who struggles with his parents and teachers due to his rebellious behavior. One of the defining films of the French New Wave, it displays many of the characteristic traits of the movement. The film, shot in DyaliScope, stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, Albert Rémy, and Claire Maurier. The 400 Blows ( French: Les Quatre Cents Coups) is a 1959 French coming-of-age drama film, and the directorial debut of François Truffaut.
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