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The release of François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows in 1959 shook world cinema to its foundations. The now-classic portrait of troubled adolescence introduced a major new director in the cinematic landscape and was an inaugural gesture of the revolutionary French New Wave. But The 400 Blows did not only introduce the world to its precocious director—it also unveiled his indelible creation: Antoine Doinel. Initially patterned closely after Truffaut himself, the Doinel character (played by the irrepressible and iconic Jean-Pierre Léaud) reappeared in four subsequent films that knowingly portrayed his myriad frustrations and romantic entanglements from his stormy teens through marriage, children, divorce, and adulthood.

  • Number of Movies: 5
  • Revenue: $1,500,000

Featured Cast

  1. Jean-Pierre Léaud

    Jean-Pierre Léaud

    Antoine Doinel

  2. Claude Jade

    Claude Jade

    Christine Doinel, Christine Darbon

  3. Marie-France Pisier

    Marie-France Pisier

    Colette Tazzi (uncredited), Colette, Colette Tazzi

  4. Claire Maurier

    Claire Maurier

    Gilberte Doinel

  5. Daniel Ceccaldi

    Daniel Ceccaldi

    Lucien Darbon

  6. Rosy Varte

    Rosy Varte

    Colette's Mother, La Mère de Colette

  7. Albert Rémy

    Albert Rémy

    Julien Doinel

  8. Delphine Seyrig

    Delphine Seyrig

    Fabienne Tabard

  9. Claire Duhamel

    Claire Duhamel

    Madame Darbon

  10. François Darbon

    Chief Warrant Officer Picard, Colette's Stepfather

  11. Georges Flamant

    Georges Flamant

    Mr. Bigey

  12. Michael Lonsdale

    Michael Lonsdale

    Georges Tabard

  13. Dani

    Dani

    Liliane

  14. Patrick Auffay

    Patrick Auffay

    René Bigey, René

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June 3, 1959

For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.

June 22, 1962

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

September 4, 1968

The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.

September 9, 1970

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.

January 24, 1979

Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first "no-fault" divorce in France and a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk, he impulsively takes off with an old flame.

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