Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon Michel, Beatrice and Michel's artistic rival, Prosper, are hurtling through the streets of Paris on the trail of the missing jacket.

• DirectorRené Clair
• Release4 February 1931
• Genre
  Comedy / Music
• Duration1h 23m
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• Rate
  

  6.883
  81 reviews
• Productions

  Société des films sonores Tobis