The Chips Are Down

The Chips Are Down

105 mins | Drama, Fantasy | July 1, 1947

"Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at life if they can prove their love is real or be doomed to roam the earth as ghosts.

The Chips Are Down

105 mins | Drama, Fantasy | July 1, 1947

The Chips Are Down
"Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at life if they can prove their love is real or be doomed to roam the earth as ghosts.
IMDb rating 7.2
Producers
Original title Les jeux sont faits
Directors Jean Delannoy
Writers Jean-Paul Sartre

Cast

Micheline Presle

as Eve Charlier

Marcello Pagliero

as Pierre Dumaine

Marguerite Moreno

as La dame de l'au-delà

Charles Dullin

as Le marquis

Fernand Fabre

as André Charlier

Jacques Erwin

as Jean Aguerra

Colette Ripert

as Lucette

Marcel Mouloudji

as Lucien Derjeu

Guy Decomble

as Poulain

Howard Vernon

as Le chef milicien

Jim Gérald

as Renaudel

Renaud Mary

as Un milicien

André Carnège

as Le ministre de la justice

Andrée Ducret

as Madame Astin

Robert Dalban

as Georges

Jean Daurand

as Paulo

Edmond Beauchamp

as Dixonne

Danièle Delorme

as La noyée

Frédéric Mariotti

as Un mort