Léon la lune (English: Leon the Moon) is a 1956 French short documentary film directed by Alain Jessua.
[1] Jessua was inspired by Jean-Paul Clébert's book Paris Insolite[2] (1952) and decided to make a film about a clochard[3] or tramp.
The poet and novelist Robert Giraud, an expert on the Parisian underworld, introduced Jessua to Léon la Lune, a vagrant whose real name was Leon Boudeville, and suggested that they follow him from day to night.
Léon la lune also appeared in the series Clochards by Robert Doisneau, the pioneer of humanist photojournalism.
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