Virginie Ledoyen
Also Known As: Virginie Fernández, ヴィルジニー・ルドワイヤン, Βιρζινί Λεντουαγέν, Βιρζινί Φερνάντεζ, ویرژینی لدواین
Biography: Virginie Ledoyen (born Virginie Fernandez; 15 November 1976) is a French actress. At the age of 2, she was already shooting advertisements for television. At 9, she started going to the École des Enfants du Spectacle, and made her film debut at 10 in Les exploits d'un jeune Don Juan (1986). She was then nominated for the César (the French equivalent of an Oscar) for most promising actress in 1993, 1994 and 1995. Her international breakthrough was in 1999, when she became ambassador for the cosmetics L'Oréal; this led to her casting in The Beach (2000), with Leonardo DiCaprio.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: November 15, 1976
Age: 48 years old
Gender: Female
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Shall We Kiss?
Overview: When Gabriel and Emilie meet by chance, he offers her a ride, and they spend the evening talking, laughing and getting along famously. At the end of the night, Emilie declines Gabriel's offer of "a kiss without consequences". Emilie admonishes him that the kiss could have unexpected consequences, and tells him a story, unfolding in flashbacks, about the impossibility of indulging your desires without affecting someone else's life.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-04
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La Ceremonie
Overview: Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-08-30
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The Beach
Overview: Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-02-03
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8 Women
Overview: Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-06
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House of Voices
Overview: In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families. Anna, who is secretly pregnant, meets the last orphan, Judith, left behind because of her mental problems, and they become closer when Anna find that Judith also hear voices and footsteps of children.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-06-23
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The Valet
Overview: Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-29
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Army of Crime
Overview: This gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on 30 operations against the Nazis in 1943. The Nazis branded the group an Army of Crime, an anti-immigrant propaganda stunt that backfired as the team's members became martyrs for the Resistance.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-16
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Jeanne and the Perfect Guy
Overview: Jeanne, a receptionist at a travel agency, is looking for the love of her life. She thinks she has finally found it with Olivier. However, Olivier reveals he has AIDS and disappears from her life after her profession of love and confession of infidelity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-04-22
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The Backwoods
Overview: An English couple's holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin.
Genres: Horror Thriller Action
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2006-09-24
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The Soul Eater
Overview: When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulphur reappears... Commander Guardiano and Captain of the Gendarmerie De Rolan are forced to join forces to uncover the truth.
Genres: Thriller Horror Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-04-24
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Bon Voyage
Overview: On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-16
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Mes amis, mes amours
Overview: Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their lives consist of Sophie the pretty florist secretly in love with Antoine, Yvonne who runs the 'bistrot français' and has a very maternal outlook on life and Mac Enzie, the boss of Antoine's agency who is completley in love with Yvonne despite the big age difference.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-07-02
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Holly
Overview: Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, HOLLY is a captivating, touching and emotional experience. Patrick, an American card shark and dealer of stolen artifacts, has been 'comfortably numb' in Cambodia for years, when he encounters Holly, a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, in the K11 red light village. The girl has been sold by her impoverished family and smuggled across the border to work as a prostitute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-16
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All That Glitters
Overview: Best friends Ely and Lila share everything together, including their dream of a life beyond the Paris suburb they've lived in since childhood. One night they venture into the capital and meet a pair of wealthy young friends at a night club. Ashamed of their working-class background, and seeing an opportunity to escape, Ely and Lila begin to lie their way into this glamorous new world. Falling deeper into their web of lies, the young women begin to lose sight of themselves as their friendship is pushed to the limit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-24
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Cold Water
Overview: An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, Christine's father ships her off to a home for emotionally disturbed children, temporarily putting space between her and Gilles. Luckily for them, though, she escapes and the couple contemplate running away together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-07-06
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Heroines
Overview: Two best friends, Johanna and Jeanne, live in the small town of Decazeville, a mining town in France and sing in the music group "The Sirens". Suddenly their paths in music and in life drastically change...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-27
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The Children Thief
Overview: Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they were his own. As would never be the case in real life today, in this fantasized story set in 1925, no one objects to this behavior, and they live pleasantly and enjoyably together. Things grow considerably more animated when a stage magician places his very attractive daughter in the colonel's household, which stirs a lively romantic interest from his boys and from the great man himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-09-25
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A Pain in the Ass
Overview: An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose ?
Overview: FBI Agents Bullit and Riper investigate the murder of a young dancer called Pamela Rose, found dead in her motel room in Bornsville, a small american town. Despite their differences, they must team up: the local police is hostile and they can only count on themselves to solve the crime. They meet Ginger, Pamela's best friend, and discover soon enough she knows more than she says.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-04
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In All Innocence
Overview: High-profile lawyer Michel takes on the defence of a young and pretty small-time thief, Cécile, after the botched hold-up of a jewellery shop. As predicted by his elegant art-dealer and sculptress wife Viviane, Michel goes well beyond his brief, jeopardising his career and ruining his marriage of 18 years.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-06
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Mahjong
Overview: Amid a rapidly changing cityscape, the lives of a disparate group of swindlers, hustlers, gangsters, and expats collide, with a naive French teenager and a sensitive young local who tries to protect her caught dangerously in the middle.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 1996-12-07
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A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Overview: This fictionalized story, based on the family life of writer James Jones, is an emotional slice-of-life story. Jones is portrayed here as Bill Willis, a former war hero turned author who combats alcoholism and is starting to experience health problems. Living in France with his wife, daughter, and an adopted son, the family travels an unconventional road which casts them as outsiders to others. Preaching a sexual freedom, his daughter's sexual discovery begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to Hanover in America. Her overt sexuality clashes with the values of her teenage American peers and gives her a problematic reputation. Meanwhile, her brooding brother copes with his own interior pain regarding his past, only comfortable communicating within the domestic space.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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Le monde et sa propriété
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-12-06
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All About Love
Overview: Maria is a bright and attractive but not especially responsible young woman who is used to having things go her way in life. Out of school and with no clear career path, Maria ends up taking a job putting together cushions for chairs. But after a single day on the job she quits, claiming the work hurts her hands and she'd rather start her own restaurant. As Maria plots her next move, she impulsively swipes a piece of lingerie from a store, then tries to lie her way out of the situation when she's caught. But Maria finds that words can't get her out of this bind, and soon she's in jail and dealing with much deeper trouble than she ever imagined possible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-04-11
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Late August, Early September
Overview: A book editor juggles relationships with two women while coping with his best friend's terminal illness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-10
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A Single Girl
Overview: A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-29
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Farewell, My Queen
Overview: A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-21
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Another Life
Overview: The South of France. Internationally famous pianist Aurore collapses one night during a performance, over-exhausted from too many concerts. Tired of music, she believes she no longer has anything to offer her public. Then she meets Jean, an electrician who installs residential security systems. Despite their differences, they immediately fall in love and plan a new life together. Jean intends to leave his long-time partner, Dolorès, but she will stop at nothing to keep him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-22
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Ablations
Overview: Business trips are trapped by multiple temptations, such as a well stocked hotel bar. But this time salesman Pastor might have overdone it a bit. He wakes up in the middle of a field without any memory at all of how he got there. Even stranger is the ugly scar on his back. But what really drives him out of his mind is that the stitches from the operation are still fresh. Has he become the victim of on organ theft? Is he missing a kidney? Pastor starts to put everything in Question; being a father, a husband, a salesman... The only thing he wants is to find out what has happened to him and nothing and nobody will stop him.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-18
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La Règle de l'homme
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Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-16
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The Groundhogs
Overview: A story of a family with numerous members drowned in their sentimental problems.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-11-10
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La Vie de Marianne
Overview: In the aristocratic society of the seventeenth century, the fate of Marianne child who survived the deadly attack on a convoy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-09-08
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Homecoming
Overview: Kheìdidja, in her forties, works for a wealthy Parisian family who offers her the opportunity to take care of their children for a summer in Corsica. It's an opportunity for her to return with her daughters, Jessica and Farah, to the island they left fifteen years earlier in tragic circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-07-12
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Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Overview: In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returned home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women. These women have previous engagements with other men who are away, and during this time, Roger impregnates them all, including his aunt and sister, then devises plans to cuckold the men.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-11-04
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Just the Two of Us
Overview: When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-24
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La folie douce
Overview: Edouard gives pieces of advice on a radio station, but when he tries to use them in real life with his friends, his skills are dubious.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-23
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Mima
Overview: Mima and her Italian family live in France. When her grandfather is killed, she discovers that they have a long-running family feud with the mafia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-16
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Rabid Dogs
Overview: After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-30
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Le monde de Fred
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-07-02
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À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Overview: The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-04
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Witnesses
Overview: During the Syrian civil war, a French war photographer takes a picture she shoudn't have taken.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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Strange Birds
Overview: Mavie is 27 years old and has just moved to the French capital from the provinces. She dreams of a future as a writer but is plagued by doubt and uncertainty. 76-year-old misanthrope Georges runs a bookshop in Paris – or has he merely been forced to take refuge there to escape his past? These are two peculiar creatures indeed. Georges is cynical and no longer expects much from life, while Mavie is still brimming with expectation. Yet something magical happens between them, until Georges' dark secret suddenly catches up with him – and Mavie is caught up in something very different...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-31
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Remi, Nobody's Boy
Overview: At the age of 10 years, young Rémi is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor Vitalis, a mysterious itinerant musician. Has its hard sides - he will learn the harsh life of acrobat and sing to win his bread. Accompanied by the faithful dog capi and of the small monkey Joli-Coeur, his long trip through France, made for meetings, friendships and mutual assistance, leads him to the secret of its origins.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-12
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MILF
Overview: Three childhood friends - Elise, Sonia and Cecile - leave for a summer in the South of France to help clear Cecile’s holiday house before it is put up for sale. There, they soon become the prime targets of three horny young men, for whom these single forty-year-old women are much more attractive than girls their age.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-05-02
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Mélancolie ouvrière
Overview: Long live the strike! Lucie Baud, one of the pioneers of the women's movement, went with creativity, fighting spirit and the power of singing against the weapons of male-dominated capitalist society in nineteenth-century France. The film, based on true events, describes the ambitious fight of a silk moth. She stood up for the rights of the female working class to end maltreatment and oppression once and for all. For the revolution in women's rights, she even put her family back and fought to the end for their beliefs.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-02-07
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La Forteresse assiégée
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Genres: Documentary War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-11-22
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A Magical Journey
Overview: 11-year-old Polina, who knows nothing about her past and parents, lives with her spiteful aunt and wicked cousin. They secretly plan to get rid of the girl at the day of her birthday, all to get their hands on her mysterious inheritance. Chased by the villains, Polina manages to escape on a magical quest to discover the secret about her family. But she only has until midnight to achieve this goal.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-08-22
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Notre Dame
Overview: Maud is an architect and a mother. Due to a misunderstanding, she wins the competition to refurbish the parvis of Notre-Dame. Torn between these responsibilities and love issues, she will go through an emotional storm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-18
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Crack 6T
Overview: Outwardly a chilling portrait of the aimless lives of unemployed inner city youths living on society's fringe, the underlying message of this volatile drama seems to call for violence to rectify social injustices. The film centers on two teenaged gangs who basically terrorize their neighborhoods with their anarchic behavior. There are few limits to their unpleasant philosophy of "desire equals acquisition." The loosely structured tale reaches its climax at a concert where the two rival groups collide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-07-02
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Nose
Overview: For the first time in a documentary feature, the prestigious House of Dior opened its doors to show the wonders of perfume creation. Travelers at heart, Arthur de Kersauson and Clément Beauvais followed François Demachy for two years and over 14 countries, from Grasse to the other side of the world, in his search for inspiration and the most precious raw materials.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-02-22
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A Day in the Life of French Cinema
Overview: Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same day. On 27 March 2002, 27 teams filmed actors, directors, producers and technicians at work, from Hawaii to Paris and from New York to Lisbon.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-20
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La Page blanche
Overview: 1972. Gilles and Christine are a young couple who is struggling with family difficulties and growing up. Christine convinces Gilles to run away together to a hypothetical community of artists living in the south of France, in Lozère. This TV movie is the basis of Olivier Assayas' feature "L'Eau froide".
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-11-11
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À pied d’œuvre
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
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L'Employé
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Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-20
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Les sensuels
Overview: French movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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