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"Godard is about ideas, Melville is about style, and Truffaut is about people."
— G.E. Nordell

French movie theaters sold 211 million tickets in 2011 – a 45-year high, and a 4-percent increase from 2010.

French Films on DVD at Amazon.com
French Films on VHS at Amazon.com

French Movies poster catalog at AllPosters [dot] com
French-Language Movie Posters catalog at AllPosters [dot] com

France's César Award listings at Internet Movie Database official César Award [est. 1976] website

Prix Méliès [est. 1946] of the Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma

French New Wave {Nouvelle Vague} entry at Wikipedia
French New Wave Films on DVD at Amazon.com
French New Wave Films on VHS at Amazon.com

Noir Films of France at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore

French  Filmmakers

NOTE: Oscar Awards for Best Foreign Language Film are not attributed
by A.M.P.A.S. or IMDb to the director or producer, but to the country of origin.

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Magic Lantern's Claude Chabrol [1930-2010] Page
Magic Lantern's Jean-Luc Godard Page
Magic Lantern's Alice Guy-Blaché [1873-1968] Page
Magic Lantern's Georges Méliès [1861-1938] Page
Magic Lantern's Jean-Pierre Melville [1917-73] Page
Magic Lantern's Jean Renoir [1894-1979] Page
Magic Lantern's Jacques Tati [1907-82] Page
Magic Lantern's François Truffaut [1932-84] Page

Jacques Becker [1906-60]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"Casque d'Or" [France April 1952; USA Aug 1952]
"Le Trou" [France March 1960; USA May 1964

"Touchez Pas au Grisbi" [France March 1954, USA July 1959] A gangster and his partner steal 50-million francs in gold bars and plan to retire. But the partner's ex-girlfriend tells her new crook boyfriend about the loot {'grisbi'), so he captures the partner, offering to exchange him for the gold. Co-written & directed by Jacques Becker; co-written by Albert Simonin from his novel; starring Jean Gabin, Jeanne Moreau, Dora Doll, René Dary & Lino Ventura Criterion subtitled b&w DVD [1/2005] for $26.99 Fox/Lorber b&w VHS [4/99] for $19.98 full credits from IMDb Rialto Pictures re-release movie page

Claude Berri

actor-director  Bertrand Blier
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Luc Besson

"La Femme Nikita" [1990] /tt0100263/ written & directed by Luc Besson
"Léon: The Professional" [1994] /tt0110413/
thriller written & directed by Luc Besson, starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman
"Taken" [2008] /tt0936501/ written by Luc Besson
"From Paris With Love" [2010] /tt1179034/ co-written by Luc Besson
http://www.frompariswithlovefilm.com/
"Taxi" 1 & 2 & 3 & 4

Robert Bresson [1901-99]
"Painting taught me to make not beautiful images but necessary ones." == Robert Bresson
"[Robert] Bresson is to French cinema what Mozart is to German music and Dostoyevsky is to Russian literature." == Jean-Luc Godard

Robert Bresson at Masters of Cinema fansite

Marcel Carne

Marcel Carne fansite

Magic Lantern's
Claude Chabrol [1930-2010] Page

"You emerge from [Chabrol's] movies neither sunk nor defeated, but poised on the brink
of good cheer." — critic Anthony Lane, in 2010

René Clair

"Un Chapeau de Paille d'Italie (The Italian Straw Hat)"
silent feature [France Jan 1928]

The tale is based on a XIXth Century French farce, updated by René Clair to 1895. A groom preparing for his marriage takes a shortcut thru the forest, where his horse eats the unique straw hat of a married woman who is dallying with her lover. The lover threatens to destroy the groom's house unless he replaces the hat, to preserve the woman's reputation • Adapted & directed by René Clair; based on the 1851 stageplay by Eugène Labiche & Marc Michel; starring Albert Préjean, Geymond Vital & Olga Tschechowa full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia Grapevine Video b&w DVD [5/2012] for $11.99 Flicker Alley b&w DVD [4/2010] for $28.49

René Clément [1913-96] IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Henri-Georges Clouzot [1907-77]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Jean Cocteau

Philippe de Broca [1933-2004]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Arnaud Desplechin

Audrey Diwan
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"L'Événement" aka "Happening" [France Nov 2021, USA May 2022]

A simple but cruel story of a young woman who decides to go against the law and get an abortion in order to finish her studies and escape the social constraints of a working-class family; she has very little time to act as exams are just around the corner and her baby bump is growing fast • Produced by Edouard Weil; produced & co-written by Alice Girard; co-written & directed by Audrey Diwan; co-written by Marcia Romano & Anne Berest; based on the novel by 2022 Nobel-laureate Annie Ernaux; starring Anamaria Vartolomei, Kacey Mottet Klein, Luàna Bajrami, Louise Orry-Diquéro, Louise Chevillotte, Pio Marmaï, Sandrine Bonnaire, Leonor Oberson, Anna Mouglalis, Cyril Metzger, Eric Verdin, Madeleine Baudot, Alice de Lencquesaing, Fabrizio Rongione, Isabelle Mazin, Julien Frison, Édouard Sulpice, Leïla Muse, François Loriquet, Louis Bédot, Emeline Weickmans, Gabriel Washer, Lomane de Dietrich, Mélodie Adda, Michaël Assié, Gabriel Ecoffey, Gateane Vacelet, Elsa Barthélémy, Lucile Beaudouin, Eva Juan, Caroline Marcos, Matisse Bonzon, Cédric Meusburger, Cindy Renou, Marie Cornillon, Fleur Lecoeur, Sacha Pichol, Cédric Omont, Lucile Saget, Hossein Rahmani Manesh; actress AV won César Award for Most Promising Actress, Dublin Film Critics Award for Best Actress, Intl Cinephile Society Award for Best Break-through Performance; film won Intel Cinephile Society Award for Best Picture, Golden Lion Best Film Award at 87th Venice Film Festival; director won Prix du public at La Roche-sur-Yon Intl Film Festival, Directors To Watch Award & Grand Jury Prize at Palm Springs Intl Film Festival, FIPRESCI Prize at 87th Venice Film Festival • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • official movie site watch official trailers online at YouTube: 1/2022 trailer #1 [1:49] • 2/2022 trailer #2 [2:16] Image Ent. color Blu-ray with subtitles [9/2022] for $14.99 Image Ent. color DVD with subtitles [9/2022] for $18.59 Q&A after May 2022 Opening Night screening at Film at Lincoln Center's 51st New Directors/New Films program watch full interview [28:34] online at YouTube

"L'Événement (The Event)" autobiographical novel [2000] by Annie Ernaux Tells the story of an abortion that the author had in 1963, when it was illegal in France French-language Kindle Edition from Editions Gallimard [9/2011] for $7.99 French-language Gallimard mass pb [8/2001] for $19.23 "Happening" autobiographical novel [2001] Translated by Tanya Leslie Kindle Edition from Seven Stories Press [1/2011] for $10.99 Seven Stories Press 8¼x5½ pb [5/2019] for $13.46

Jean Eustache [1938-81]

"La Maman et la Putain" aka "The Mother and The Wh*re" [1973]

Louis Feuillade [1873-1925]
browse Louis Feuillade on DVD • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Louis Feuillade on Facebook
MEG's Louis Feuillade fansite

"Les Vampires" [Gaumont silent serial Nov 1915] A vast gang of crooks who call themselves 'The Vampires' is undone by an intrepid reporter and a reformed member of the gang • Written & directed by Louis Feuillade; starring Musidora {as Irma Vep}, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Aymé, Fernand Herrmann & Stacia Napierkowska Image Ent. subtitled silent b&w DVD [4/2005] 2 disks for $34.99 full credits from IMDb • film entry at Wikipedia

"Judex" [Gaumont silent serial Dec 1916] Following French movie pioneer Louis Feuillade's classic "Les Vampires" [1915], he made another great early serial, 12 episodes about a 'caped crusader' avenging wrongs, a precursor to Batman and The Shadow. Co-written & directed by Louis Feuillade; starring René Cresté {as Judex}, Musidora, René Poyen, Édouard Mathé, Gaston Michel & Yvonne Dario Flicker Alley subtitled silent b&w DVD [6/2004] 2 disks for $39.95 full credits from IMDb • film entry at Wikipedia

Abel Gance []

Abel Gance's "Napoléon"
[France April 1927 silent; M.G.M. USA release Feb 1929]
see full details below

http://www.amazon.com/End-Of-The-World/dp/B001AD6UK0/

"Abel Gance: The Charm of Dynamite" documentary [1968] by Kevin Brownlow
video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb

Magic Lantern's
Jean-Luc Godard Page

actor-writer-director Sacha Guitry [1885-1957]
wrote 120 plays & 40 films, and acted in and directed most of them
browse Louis Feuillade on DVD • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"Eclipse Series 22: Presenting Sacha Guitry" DVD Box Set [2010] Criterion b&w DVD set [7/2010] 4 disks for $52.49 contains 4 feature films: "Confessions of A Cheat (Le Roman d'un Tricheur)" [1936] with Jacqueline Delubac, Rosine Deréan & Henri Pfeifer; "Pearls of The Crown (Les Perles de La Couronne)" [1937] with Jacqueline Delubac & Lyn Harding; "Désiré" [1937] with Jacqueline Delubac, Pauline Carton & Arletty; and "Quadrille" [1938] with Jacqueline Delubac, Georges Gray, Gaby Morlay & Pauline Carton

  "Confessions of A Cheat (Le Roman d'un Tricheur)" [France 1936]

Starring, written & directed by Sacha Guitry, with Jacqueline Delubac, Rosine Deréan & Henri Pfeifer available on Criterion DVD box set above full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

"Pearls of The Crown (Les Perles de La Couronne)" [France 1937]

Starring, co-written & directed by Sacha Guitry, with Jacqueline Delubac & Lyn Harding available on Criterion DVD box set above full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

"Désiré" [France 1937]

Starring, written & directed by Sacha Guitry, with Jacqueline Delubac, Pauline Carton & Arletty available on Criterion DVD box set above full credits at IMDb

"Quadrille" [1938]

Starring, written & directed by Sacha Guitry, with Gaby Morlay, Jacqueline Delubac, Georges Grey & Pauline Carton available on Criterion DVD box set above full credits at IMDb

"Ils Etaient Neuf Celibataires (Nine Bachelors)" [France 1939] /tt0193239/
Starring, written & directed by Sacha Guitry, with Max Dearly, Elvire Popesco & Victor Boucher

"La Vie D'un Honnête Homme" aka "The Virtuous Scoundrel" [1953]
described as 'his neglected masterpiece'; written & directed & narrated by Sacha Guitry;
starring Michel Simon, Lana Marconi, Louis de Funès, Marguerite Pierry & Claude Gensac

"Napoléon" [France March 1955]

Written & directed by Sacha Guitry; starring Daniel Gelin (as young Napoléon} & Raymond Pellegrin {as old Napoléon}; also starring Jean-Pierre Aumont, Danielle Darrieux, O.W. Fischer, Jean Gabin, Sacha Guitry, Jean Marais, Michèle Morgan, Yves Montand, Patachou, Micheline Presle, Dany Robin, Maria Schell, Erich von Stroheim {as Ludwig van Beethoven} & Orson Welles DVD/Blu-ray not available Madacy Ent. color VHS [undated] for $5.00 21st Genesis Home Video color VHS [undated] for $23.45 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

Magic Lantern's
director Alice Guy-Blaché [1873-1968] Page
The only woman filmmaker to this day who owned her own studio.
Blaché made over 1,000 films; 130 films survive, but only 3 of her 40 features (and only 450 are listed on IMDb.)

"Gaumont Treasures: 1897-1913" DVD Box Set [2009] Kino Video b&w DVD set [9/2009] 85+ films on 3 disks for $79.95 DISK 1 contains 70+ silent short films produced and-or directed from 1897 to 1907 by Alice Guy-Blaché [1873-1968], including the 33-minute religious epic "La Vie du Christ" aka "The Birth, The Life and The Death of Christ" [1906], and performances by Félix Mayol with 'Phono-Cinema' synchronous sound DISK 2 is films of Louis Feuillade [1873-1925]; DISK 3 is films of Léonce Perret [1880-1935]

Jean-Pierre Jeunet
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Claude Lelouch IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"I do have an awkward relationship with the elite, ever since A Man and A Woman."

"I fell in love with cinema because I preferred this life instead of real life."

— Claude Lelouch

"And Now My Love" aka "Toute une Vie"
[France May 1974, AVCO-Embassy/U.S.A. March 1975]
This film was how I discovered Simultaneous Bilingual Film Production

A love story that spans a century, with the two young lovers meeting in the very last frame. {But now the DVD includes the restored 20-minute scifi-fantasy sequence after that supremely-romantic moment; one option is to halt the movie when the fantasy portion begins} • Co-written & directed by Claude Lelouch; starring Marthe Keller (in 3 roles), André Dussollier, Charles Denner (in 3 roles), Carla Gravina, Charles Gérard, Gilbert Bécaud, Sam Letrone, Daniel Boulanger, André Falcon, Nathalie Courval, Judith Magre, Annie Kerani & Maria Pia Conte; Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay Image Ent. widescreen subtitled color DVD [12/2003] for $22.99 Columbia-Tristar subtitled color VHS [2/93] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

"Roman  de  Gare" [France May 2007, USA April 2008]

An examination of what is real and what is not, thru the interconnections among a famous crime writer who secretly uses a ghost writer, a serial killer on the loose, and a hairdresser on her way to the country with her fiancée. Co-produced, co-written & directed by Claude Lelouch; starring Fanny Ardant, Dominique Pinon, Audrey Dana, Zinedine Soualem, Myriam Boyer, Michèle Bernier & Cyrille Eldin video/DVD not yet available • full credits from IMDb official movie sites: France {requires Flash} • USA {requires Flash}

Louis Malle [1932-95]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

The Documentaries of Louis Malle [2007] Criterion Collection DVD box set [4/2007] 6 disks for $79.95 includes "Vive Le Tour" [1962 short]; "Place de La République"[France April 1974]; "Humain, Trop Humain" [New Yorker Films Feb 1975]; "Calcutta" [France April 1969, USA Nov 1971]; "Phantom India" [1969 7-episode TV miniseries; "God's Country" [P.B.S. TV 1986]; and "...And the Pursuit of Happiness" [TV 1986]

Magic Lantern's
cinema pioneer Georges Méliès [1861-1938] Page

Magic Lantern's
Jean-Pierre Melville [1917-73] Page

Paul Moreira of Paris, France
official Premières Lignes TV website • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"Inside The Russian Info War Machine" documentary [Java Films France 2018?]  
French title "Guerre de L'Information au Coeur de La Machine Russe"

90-minute documentary with English subtitles; French TV journalist Moreira investigates how Russia manipulates public opinion, undermines democratic governments, and attempts to alter world events. The public face of foreign policy is the state news channels: Sputnik and Russia Today; but working in the shadows is the hidden part of foreign policy: the hackers and trolls pushing the Russian agenda, 'a message tainted with illegitimacy' Directed by Paul Moreira DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • Amazon Instant Video [2018] not yet available not yet listed at IMDb • official movie site watch 3/2018 official trailer [2:59] at YouTube

Marcel Pagnol [1895-1974]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

The Fanny or Marseilles Trilogy
starring Raimu, Pierre Fresnay & Orane Demazis
Kino Video b&w DVD [9/2007] 4 disks for $53.99
Kino Video b&w DVD [6/2004] 4 disks - out of prodn/used
credits: "Marius [1931]  •  "Fanny" [1933]  •  "César" [1936]

"Port of Seven Seas" [M.G.M. July 1938]

The waterfront of Marseilles is populated by self-centered yet charming rascals caught in a love triangle: Panisse loves Fanny, Fanny loves Marius, and Marius loves the sea. Directed by James Whale; screenplay by Preston Sturges [1898-1959], based on Marcel Pagnol's 'Fanny Trilogy' stageplays & movies; starring Wallace Beery, Frank Morgan, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Beal, Jessie Ralph, Cora Witherspoon, Etienne Girardot, E. Alyn Warren, Robert Spindola & Doris Lloyd; video/DVD not available • full credits from IMDb

"La Trilogie Marseillaise: Marius" [France April 2000 TV movie] /tt0243407/
"La Trilogie Marseillaise: Fanny" [France April 2000 TV movie] /tt0243250/
"La Trilogie Marseillaise: César" [France April 2000 TV movie] /tt0243844/

The Marseilles Trilogy [2013]
Directed by & starring Daniel Auteuil (as César)
        

Pagnol's 'Souvenirs d'Enfance (Memories of Childhood)" Books

"La Gloire de mon Père (My Father's Glory)" [1957 autobiographical novel]
1990 film based on the novel, co-written & directed by Yves Robert /tt0099669/

"Le Château de ma Mère (My Mother's Castle)" [1957 autobiographical novel]
1990 film based on the novel, co-written & directed by Yves Robert /tt0099266/

"L'Eau des Collines [1964 novel]
"Jean de Florette" [France Aug 1986, Orion USA Aug 1987] film based on the novel /tt0091288/
Co-written & directed by Claude Berri; starring Gérard Depardieu, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil & Elisabeth Depardieu
"Manon des Sources" [France Nov 1986, Orion USA Nov 1987] film based on the novel /tt0091480/
Co-written & directed by Claude Berri; starring Emmanuelle Béart, Yves Montand & Daniel Auteuil

Maurice Pialat [1925-2003]

Magic Lantern's Jean Renoir [1894-1979] Page

Alain Resnais [1922-2014]
"You sense that all of the resources of cinema are available to Resnais." – reviewer Stuart Klawans in 2009
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"Mon Oncle d'Amérique (My American Uncle)" [Gaumont France May 1980, USA Dec 1980] /tt0081176/
directed by Alain Resnais; written by Jean Gruault, based on writings of Henri Laborit [1914-95]; starring Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia,
Roger Pierre, Nelly Borgeaud, Pierre Arditi, Henri Laborit; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (5/2005)

"Wild Grass" [2009]

"You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Vous n'Avez Encore Rien Vu)"
[France Sept 2012, Kino Lorber USA June 2013]

A who's-who of French acting royalty is summoned to the reading of a late playwright's last will and testament, which turns out to be on video • Co-adapted & directed by Alain Resnais; co-adapted by Laurent Herbiet; based on two works by the playwright Jean Anouilh; starring Denis Podalydes, Mathieu Amalric, Michel Piccoli, Sabine Azéma, Anne Consigny, Hippolyte Girardot, Amy Duperey, Pierre Arditi & Lambert Wilson DVD/Blu-ray not yet available full credits at IMDb • official movie site • watch 6/2013 official trailer [2:37] at YouTube

Alain Robbe-Grillet [1922-2008]

Eric Rohmer [1920-2010]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

Contes Moraux (Six Moral Tales) [1963-72]
"Six Moral Tales" DVD set

Comédies et Proverbes (Comedies and Proverbs) [1981-87]

Contes des Quatre Saisons (Tales of The Four Seasons) [1990-98]

documentarian Jean Rouch [1917-2004]
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

landmark 1957 work "Moi, Un Noir (Me, A Black)" winner of the 1958 Prix Louis Delluc
regarded by Jean-Luc Godard as “the best French film since the liberation”

Announced 8/2012: Icarus Films has acquired two short films and four feature films
by Jean Rouch for North American distribution.

French-Algerian filmmaker Florida Sadki

Magic Lantern's Jacques Tati [1907-82] Page

Bertrand Tavernier
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

president of Institut Lumière museum [est. 1982] in Lyon, France

watch 12/2016 live interview at Film Society at Lincoln Center [23:20] online at YouTube

"My Journey Through French Cinema" [Gaumont/Pathé France Oct 2016]
original title "Voyage à Travers le Cinéma Français"

3-hour 10-minute documentary film covering cinema examples that Tavernier enjoyed as a child, that influenced his career, and‑or that he simply admires • Written & directed by Bertrand Tavernier; featuring Bertrand Tavernier, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Thierry Frémaux; with archive footage of Jacques Becker, Marcel Carné, Claude Chabrol, Eddie Constantine, Raoul Coutard, Georges de Beauregard, Michel Deville, Antoine Duhamel, Jean Gabin, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Françoise Giroud, Jean-Luc Godard, Henri Jean-son, Joseph Kosma, Henri Langlois, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Tonie Marshall, Jean-Pierre Melville, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Prévert, Jean Renoir, Claude Sautet, Volker Schoendoerffer, René Tavernier, Alexandre Trauner & Lino Ventura DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb • watch 6/2017 French-language official trailer [1:41] at YouTube

André Téchiné
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"My Favorite Season" [1993]
"Wild Reeds" [1994]

Magic Lantern's François  Truffaut  [1932-84] Page

Agnès  Varda [1928-2019]
"I fought for a radical cinema, and I continued all my life." ~~~ Agnès Varda
IMDb listing • Wikipedia

"4 by Agnès Varda" [2008] Criterion Collection color/b&w DVD set [1/2008] 4 disks for $89.99 includes restored versions of "La Pointe Courte" [1956] starring Silvia Monfort & Philippe Noiret; "Cléo From 5 To 7" [1961] starring Corinne Marchand; "Le Bonheur" [1965] starring Jean-Claude Drouot, Claire Drouot & Marie-France Boyer; and "Vagabond" [1985] starring Sandrine Bonnaire

Jean  Vigo  [1905-34]
Prix Jean Vigo [est. 1951] • IMDb listing • Wikipedia

book "Jean Vigo" [] by Michael Temple

"The Complete Jean Vigo" Box Set [2011] Criterion Collection b&w Blu-ray [8/2011] for $24.04 Criterion Collection b&w DVD [8/2011] 2 disks for $18.14 contains high-definition digital restorations of Jean Vigo's four feature films: "À Propos de Nice" [1929 silent], "Taris, Roi de l'Eau" [1931], "Zéro de Conduite" [1933], and "L’Atalante" [1934]; extras include commentaries, alternate scenes, animated tribute by filmmaker Michel Gondry, and a 90-minute French "Cinéastes de Notre Temps" TV episode [1964] directed by Jacques Rozier

"Zéro de Conduite: Jeunes Diables au Collège" [France April 1933] aka "Zero For Conduct" [U.S.A. June 1947] Banned until 1946: Bored & oppressed at their boarding school, the students revolt • Written & directed by Jean Vigo; starring Louis Lefebvre, Gilbert Pruchon, Coco Golstein, Gérard de Bédarieux, Jean Dasté, Robert le Flon, Du Verron, Delphin, Léon Larive, Madame Émile, Louis de Gonzague & Raphaël Diligent Timeless Multimedia b&w VHS [12/94] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDbmovie entry at Wikipedia

"L'Atalante" [Gaumont Intl./France Sept 1934, U.S.A. June 1947] "Lyrically expressive . . . a pioneer of poetic realism . . . a portrait of a nation." A handsome barge captain marries a girl from a small village, who soon becomes bored with canal-bound life; when they reach Paris, she jumps ship • Co-written & directed by Jean Vigo; starring Michel Simon, Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre, Maurice Gilles & Raphaël Diligent New Yorker Films b&w DVD [4/2003] out of prodn/used Timeless Multimedia b&w VHS [7/94] for $12.99 New Yorker Films b&w VHS [11/98] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia

Cinema of France Pages at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store

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