Le Bal (1983 film)

• Étienne Guichard as Le jeune étudiant de province / Le jeune professeur
• Régis Bouquet as Le patron de la salle / Le paysan
• Francesco De Rosa as Toni, le jeune serveur
• Arnault LeCarpentier as Le jeune typographe / L'étudiant
• Liliane Delval as La fille aux cheveux longs / L'alcoolique (as Liliane Léotard)
• Martine Chauvin as La jeune fleuriste / L'étudiante
• Danielle Rochard as La livreuse d'une modiste
• Nani Noël as La fille de joie / La jeune juive / La refugiée / La jeune qui peint ses basses
• Aziz Arbia as Le jeune ouvrier
• Marc Berman as L'aristo / Le planqué / Le collaborationiste
• Geneviève Rey-Penchenat as L'aristo
• Michel van Speybroeck as L'homme qui vient de loin
• Rossana Di Lorenzo as La dame-pipi
• Michel Toty as L'ouvrier spécialisé
• Raymonde Heudeline as L'ouvrière
• Jean-Claude Penchenat as La 'croix de feu'
• Jean-Francois Perrier as le sacristain amoureux / l'officier allemand

Le Bal was released in the United States in March 1984.[2]

Vincent Canby from The New York Times gave the film a very good review, stating: "Because Le Bal is a spectacle, most of the performers, unfortunately, remain anonymous, though their contributions are enormous. The film has been choreographed as much as directed in any conventional sense, but the physical production is outstanding. In the 1936 sequence, Mr Scola and his cinematographer, Ricardo Aronovich[3] miraculously drain virtually all the color from the images to create a look that suggests hand-tinted photographs that have begun to fade. More than anything else, these exemplify the mood of the entire film."[4]

On Rotten Tomatoes, "Le Bal" currently holds 89% audience approval rating.[5]

• List of submissions to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Algerian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

• Le Bal on IMDb