Jules and Jim

Jules and Jim
original film poster © Christian Broutin
Directed by	François Truffaut
Produced by	Marcel Berbert François Truffaut
Screenplay by	François Truffaut Jean Gruault
Based on	Jules et Jim by Henri-Pierre Roché
Starring	Jeanne Moreau Oskar Werner Henri Serre
Narrated by	Michel Subor
Music by	Georges Delerue
Cinematography	Raoul Coutard
Edited by	Claudine Bouché
Production company	Les Films du Carrosse/ SEDIF
Distributed by	Cinédis Gala Janus Films
Release date	January 23, 1962 (1962-01-23)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	1,595,379 admissions (France)

Jules and Jim (French: Jules et Jim, IPA: [ʒyl e dʒim]) is a 1962 French romantic drama film, directed, produced and written by François Truffaut. Set around the time of World War I, it describes a tragic love triangle involving French Bohemian Jim (Henri Serre), his shy Austrian friend Jules (Oskar Werner), and Jules's girlfriend and later wife Catherine (Jeanne Moreau).

The film is based on Henri-Pierre Roché's 1953 semi-autobiographical novel describing his relationship with young writer Franz Hessel and Helen Grund, whom Hessel married. Truffaut came across the book in the mid-1950s whilst browsing through some secondhand books at a shop along the Seine in Paris. Later he befriended the elderly Roché, who had published his first novel at the age of 74. The author approved of the young director's interest to adapt his work to another medium.

The film won the 1962 Grand Prix of French film prizes, the Étoile de Cristal, and Jeanne Moreau won that year's prize for best actress. The film ranked 46 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010. The soundtrack by Georges Delerue was named as one of the "10 best soundtracks" by Time magazine in its "All Time 100 Movies" list. Professor Stephen Hawking has called it his "favorite movie of all time." The shooting of the movie was the subject of a documentary directed in 2009 by Thierry Tripod.