Cast
H
Hiroko Matsumoto
as Kyoko
C
Christophe Vesque
as Le Petit Christophe
M
Marianne Piketti
as Marianne
M
Marie Dedieu
as Marie, la Prostituée
M
Marie Iracane
as Madame Martin, la Concierge
F
Frédérique Dolbert
as Alphonse Doinel (uncredited)
M
Miss Irakane
as Alphonse Doinel (uncredited)
M
Marcel Mercier
as Un Homme dans la Cour (uncredited)
J
Joseph Mériau
as Un Homme dans la Cour (uncredited)
H
Helen Scott
as Dame au Restaurant (uncredited)
Crew
L
Lucette Desmouceaux
Production Secretary
The Adventures of Antoine Doinel Movies
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.
