A Man and His Dog is a 2009

2009 in film

The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...

 French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 film directed by French director Francis Huster, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, based on the 1952 film Umberto D.

Umberto D.

Umberto D. is a 1952 Italian neorealist film, directed by Vittorio de Sica. Most of the actors were non-professional, including Carlo Battisti, who plays the title role...

 directed by Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio De Sica was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement....

, and written by Cesare Zavattini

Cesare Zavattini

Cesare Zavattini was an Italian screenwriter and one of the first theorists and proponents of the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema.-Brief biography:...

.

It is the first film in seven years featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.-Career:Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football."Did you box professionally very long?" "Not very long...

 due to him having a stroke.

Plot

Charles is an old retiree who lives in a maid's room in the house of his lover, a rich widow. He is forced out onto the street with his dog after the widow breaks off the relationship, as she decides to marry again. With no home nor way to make money, they wander the streets of Paris.

Cast

• Jean-Paul Belmondo
  Jean-Paul Belmondo
  Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.-Career:Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football."Did you box professionally very long?" "Not very long...
  
   - Charles
• Hafsia Herzi
  Hafsia Herzi
  Hafsia Herzi is a French actress of Algerian and Tunisian descent. She is best known for her debut role in the award-winning Franco-Tunisian feature The Secret of the Grain for which she won the award for most promising actress at the César Awards 2008, and the Marcello Mastroianni award, for best...
  
   - Leïla
• Julika Jenkins - Jeanne
• Francis Huster
  Francis Huster
  Francis Huster is a French stage, film and television actor, film director and scriptwriter.-Biography:Francis Huster was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He studied acting at the Conservatoire of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, at the Cours Florent and at the Conservatoire national , where he had...
  
   - Robert
• Max von Sydow
  Max von Sydow
  Max von Sydow is a Swedish actor. He has also held French citizenship since 2002. He has starred in many films and had supporting roles in dozens more...
  
   - Commandier
• Jean Dujardin
  Jean Dujardin
  -Life and career:Dujardin was born in Rueil-Malmaison. Dujardin first became famous on the French talent show Graines de star in 1996 as part of the comedy group Nous C Nous, formed by members of the Carré blanc theater. From 1999 to 2003 he starred in the French version of the comedy television...
  
   - Worker
• José Garcia
  José Garcia (actor)
  José Garcia , sometimes credited as José Luis Garcia, is a French film and television actor.- Early life and education :He was born in Paris, France.- Career :...
  
   - Passenger
• Caroline Silhol
• Michèle Bernier
• Daniel Prévost
  Daniel Prévost
  Daniel Prévost is a French actor and humorist.Daniel Prevost is notably known for his part in the French television series Le Petit Rapporteur.-Early life and Family:...
  
  
• Françoise Fabian
  Françoise Fabian
  Françoise Fabian is a French film actress. She has appeared in over 80 films since 1956.She was born in Algiers, Algeria, and is the widow of screenwriter and director Jacques Becker and actor Marcel Bozzuffi. One of her best-known roles is as Maud in Eric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's...
  
  
• Cristiana Reali
  Cristiana Reali
  -Biography:Emigrated to France along with her family at a young age. She graduated from the Lycée Moliėre in Paris , then studied theater under her future husband, Francis Huster in the Cours Florent....
  
  
• Tcheky Karyo
  Tchéky Karyo
  -Early life:Karyo was born in Istanbul to a Greek mother and Sephardic-Jewish father and raised in Paris, France. He studied drama at the Cyrano Theatre and later became a member of the Daniel Sorano Company, playing many classical roles.-Career:...
  
  
• Pierre Mondy
  Pierre Mondy
  Pierre Mondy, whose real name was Pierre Cuq, born 10 February 1925 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French actor and director.He began his film career in 1949 and has appeared in over 140 films. In 1960, he received international revcognition for the role of Napoléon Bonaparte in the film Austerlitz...
  
  
• Antoine Duléry
• Charles Gérard
  Charles Gérard
  Charles Gérard is a French actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1957. In many fims he worked with director Claude Lelouch.-Selected filmography:- External links :...
  
  
• Patrick Bosso
• Jean-Luc Lemoine
• Dolores Chaplin
• Barbara Schulz
  Barbara Schulz
  Barbara Schulz is a French actress who won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 2001. She was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress for the 1999 film La Dilettante....
  
  
• Sarah Biasini
  Sarah Biasini
  Sarah Magdalena Biasini is a French actress, the daughter of the late actress Romy Schneider and her second husband and former private secretary Daniel Biasini....
  
  
• Bruno Lochet
• Rachida Brakni
  Rachida Brakni
  Rachida Brakni is a French actress of Algerian origin. She is married to the football hero turned film actor Eric Cantona, whom she met on the filmset of Outremangeur in 2002....
  
  
• Daniel Olbrychski
  Daniel Olbrychski
  Daniel Olbrychski is a Polish actor best known for leading roles in several Andrzej Wajda movies and also known for playing the Russian defector and spymaster Vassily Orlov, alongside Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie in the movie Salt....
  
  
• Aurélien Wiik
  Aurélien Wiik
  Aurélien Wiik is a French actor. He is the son of a Norwegian father and of the French actress Françoise Deldick.-Acting career:...
  
  
• François Perrot
• Nicole Calfan
• Steve Suissa
• Jean-Marc Thibault
• Robert Hossein
  Robert Hossein
  Robert Hossein is a French film actor of Azeri origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute...
  
  
• Jean-Pierre Bernard
• Micheline Presle
  Micheline Presle
  Micheline Presle is a French actress also known in English language films as Micheline Prelle.Born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne in Paris, she wanted to be an actress from an early age. She took acting classes in her early teens and made her film debut at the age of fifteen in the...
  
  
• Emmanuelle Riva
  Emmanuelle Riva
  Emmanuelle Riva is a French actress.Riva started her acting career on the Paris stage after having worked as a seamstress...
  
  
• Jacques Spiesser
  Jacques Spiesser
  -Biography:After having taken courses at the Conservatoire, he made his film, debut in 1972, in Nina Companeez's Faustine et le bel été Nina Companeez with Muriel Catala.He is best known to English-speaking audiences for playing the role of Gilles in Priceless....
  
  
• Pierre Cassignard
• Carlo Nell
• Linda Hardy
  Linda Hardy
  Linda Hardy is a French actress and model.-Biography:Hardy won the title of Miss France in 1992 and represented her country at Miss Universe and Miss World.-Movie career:...