Yves Brainville
Also Known As: Yves René Marie de La Chevardière de La Grandville
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: March 08, 1914
Age: 111 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 16, 1993
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Vortex
Overview: Rod Taylor plays a United Nations bio-warfare disarmament expert whose lonely wife (Catherine Jourdan) has a steamy affair while she's away in France. But soon she finds out the hard way that her lover is not quite the charming and stable guy she thought he was, and starts to fear him and wonder about his true motives.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-14
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The Sicilian Clan
Overview: An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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The Witches of Salem
Overview: Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-26
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A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-07
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Stavisky...
Overview: Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power. But when his great scam involving millions gets exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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Mont-Dragon
Overview: Because he has seduced Germaine de Boismenil, Georges Dormont is thrown out of the army by the colonel and husband of the beautiful. After the death of the Count of Boismenil, Dormont arrived at the castle of the widow with the firm intention of taking revenge. From the outset, he seduces Pierrette, the servant, revives the heart of Germaine, having gotten an appointment with the widow, he makes her naked, humiliates and leaves her. Witness of the scene, Martha, the proud orphan, throws herself into the arms of Gaston, faithful order of the colonel, to avenge her mother. George soon flouted their feelings. He then forces Germaine to reveal his attachment to Pierrette and causes a beautiful scandal.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-16
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At the Order of the Czar
Overview: Carolyn de Sayn was married at the age of sixteen, against her will, to the Prince of Wittgenstein, much older than herself. A few years later, she met Franz Liszt, whose fame had already conquered the whole of Europe. Taking advantage of her husband's absence, the young woman invites the musician to her estate in Woronince. When Franz confesses his love for her, she finds it easier to fight her own feelings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-18
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The Big Flag
Overview: For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser makes him realize that his life is tied to the sea. For his part, Navy cadet Pierre Hardouin understands that sailing is his vocation. The prospect of staying home alone while Pierre is on mission, frightens Madeleine, the girl of his heart. But the young woman ends up accepting the ordeal and marrying Pierre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-21
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The Curtain Rises
Overview: 1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins former students from the second and third years, including François (Claude Dauphin) and Cécilia (Odette Joyeux). They attend the drama class run by Professor Lambertin (Louis Jouvet). The young people, passionate and eager to become comedians, clash in tumultuous love affairs, because by dint of acting, they imagine that life is a farce. François, for example, is in love with Isabelle, who also loves him, but is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress... "Put art in your life and life in your art!"
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-06
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Final Accord
Overview: A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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Cordial Agreement
Overview: The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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Le monde en armes
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-07
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The Musicians of the Sky
Overview: A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-10
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Special Mission
Overview: The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and his men go underground and resist the occupiers whatever the price to pay. When the Liberation comes Chabrier resumes his activities at the French National Police.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-08
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Judicial Error
Overview: After a banker is driven to suicide by his wife's reckless spending, an innocent cashier is wrongly implicated in a crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-07
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The House Under the Sea
Overview: A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love, taking refuge with Constant in a cave they call “home under the sea.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-20
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Vertiges
Overview: A specialist in the fight against cancer, a young doctor finds himself suffering from a terrible illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-10-22
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Cartouche, King of Paris
Overview: The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a Duke against the throne.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-02
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La louve
Overview: A chronicler gets himself hired as a gamekeeper in Monsieur De Saint-Ricquier's mansion where he lives with his stepdaughter, Henriette, everybody considers insane .
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-07-13
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-27
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Un jeu d'enfer
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Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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Trapped by Fear
Overview: Two French paras who had lived through deadly situations in Algeria, meet again in civil life. Frapier is a newspaper reporter, and one day finds his friend Porte - surrounded by the police after a car theft, and an accidental killing of a police officer. He helps him escape, and provides shelter with the complicity of his girlfriend Vera. Later, Frapier will have doubts about Vera's love, and lives a passionate night with beautiful Arabelle. However, he finds himself playing a game of life and death both with Vera, and Porte. It will end in sadness for one, and death for another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-04
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Hauteclaire
Overview: The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Doctor Torty is the doctor. He tells a story of which he is the only one to know the secret, that of a criminal couple, without any remorse. The pretty Hauteclaire Stassin, daughter of the master of arms, meets the Count of Savigny, married to the noble and languid Delphine. Madly in love with the count, Hauteclaire joined the castle as a servant. Shortly after, the countess died of poisoning. Will the guilty lovers go unpunished?
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-06-13
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Chanel Solitaire
Overview: The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary creative icons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-16
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Spy Pit
Overview: Julien Saint Dominique, an agent of the French counter-espionage service in Berlin, investigates the kidnapping of a functionary taken by German communists into East Germany.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-11-22
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Love and Death
Overview: In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-10
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The Lady Banker
Overview: Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-08-27
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Skies Above
Overview: The crew of an aircraft carrier discovers that it is being pursued by a UFO that turns out to be a radioactive probe from outer space. They appeal to the warring countries of Earth to stop fighting and help it to repel the invaders.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-01-20
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Crack in the Mirror
Overview: Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the first segment, Hagolin is a loutish construction worker with an unhappy wife, Eponine. The wife becomes involved with a swarthy working man, Larnier, and their passion knows no boundaries of caution or safety. Eventually, Eponine's and Larnier's lust drives them to madness, and they murder Hagolin. The second tale concerns an up-and-coming young lawyer, Claude, whose mentor is a highly successful veteran attorney, Lamerciere, with a beautiful young wife named Florence. Claude finds himself defending Larnier and Eponine, while Lamerciere dies of a heart attack after he discovers that Florence has been unfaithful to him with Claude.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-19
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If All the Guys in the World...
Overview: A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the crew's aid.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-02-24
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Frankenstein: A Love Story
Overview: Fascinated by the idea of being able to create life through science, a count produces a monster from corpses. Does the creature have a soul?
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-07
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The Big Bluff
Overview: A penniless adventurer, Eddie Morgan survives on his wits and good humor. He's a bluffer. To help the owner of an oil field, he launches a vast investment campaign, with the help of a few friends, to benefit the French people. A rival group, led by Serge Colonna and Dominique Ardan, tried to buy the land from him, because according to an expert, there was no oil to exploit. But the expert had lied, and Colonna had just signed the purchase contract. Eddie, with the help of Dominique, whom he has seduced in the meantime, snatches the famous paper from Colonna's hands. The oil can flow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-14
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Operation Abduction
Overview: The Secret Service abducts a "rocket scientist" to better protect him against gangsters acting for Chinese agents.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-08
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Tonight We Kill
Overview: In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining what they're looking for: a list of all the influential crooks. Only one remains, Larry Laine, who is about to show them what he's made of.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-15
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With Both Hands
Overview: In Spain, criminals steal a large stock of watermarked paper for banknotes. In France, they hire Besnard, a specialist in counterfeit money, to do the printing. But after printing the clichés, Besnard is wounded by gangsters, and a journalist gets involved and steals the famous clichés.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-02
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The Knife to the Throat
Overview: Pacos Le Maltais, leader of a gang, lays down the law on the quay of Marseille. He fires one of his henchmen, Le Chinois, who killed a woman during the last bank stickup.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-11-29
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Love Me Strangely
Overview: Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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The Versailles Affair
Overview: Suzuki, a Japanese secret agent, is sent to Versailles to unmask a certain Klauss, who is to receive stolen documents from Saudi Arabia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-10
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The Star Ship
Overview: Onboard a spaceship sailing into infinity, generations of travelers are subject to dictatorial rules imposed by the central computer "Psycho." Recruited as a new police officer, Eddy Burns will discover the terrifying secrets behind this flawless system.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-11
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The Mountain
Overview: Selfish Chris Teller pressures his older brother, a retired climber, to accompany him on a treacherous Alpine climb to loot the bodies of plane crash victims.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-31
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Time Masters
Overview: On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves young Piel alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. Onboard Jaffar’s shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad, who knows Perdide well. Thus begins an incredible race across space to save Piel.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-24
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Bye Bye Barbara
Overview: A chance meeting with an alluring stranger leads a sports journalist down a twisted path of deception.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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Bold Adventure
Overview: In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo, Duke of Alba, and from there organize resistance against the invaders.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-07
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Sweet Revenge
Overview: An attorney plays match-maker for her ex-husband, by hiring an actress to seduce him - all in an attempt to try and rid herself of alimony payments.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-09
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Overview: A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-16
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Le Long des trottoirs
Overview: A girl surviving on public welfare, fall into a life of prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-17
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Frédéric
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-19
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Every Day Has Its Secret
Overview: Given up for dead three years ago in a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, a young woman arrives in Paris to find her eminent ethnologist husband. She learns of his death in obscure circumstances, having remarried in the meantime. She sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding her husband's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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The Night of the Generals
Overview: A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Thriller Mystery War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-29
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Judoka-Secret Agent
Overview: Marc is a French secret agent whose only weapons are judo and karate. With the help of his sidekick Jacques, the duo goes to protect a noted scientist from falling into the hands of a gang of underworld thugs. Marc finds love with one of the female gang members who turns out to be a double agent with the British Secret Service.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-07-24
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Night Dance Hall
Overview: Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs during her adolescent years. As a result of her family situation, Martine runs away from home and gets involved with a group of teens and young adults from the wrong side of the moral tracks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-07-24
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Clockwork Bananas
Overview: Gilles, who operates a money losing garage, teams up with his friends Max, who operates a scrap yard, and lawyer Xavier to open a brothel catering to women. They get the idea from Gilles' secretary Irma, a former prostitute. They are assisted in the implementation by Max's wife Juliette and Sabine who is mad for Gilles. Unfortunately Gilles has fallen for Florence the daughter of the conservative Prime Minister and his wife. When the Prime Minister tries to shut down the brothel Gilles decides to stand against him in the election.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-08-09
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The Bunker
Overview: Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-15
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International Prostitution: Brigade criminelle
Overview: A French police inspector with the help of Tazzi, a woman involved in a prostitution ring, track down the man who murdered Tazzi's sister.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-06-18
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Paris Holiday
Overview: Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is targeted for death by a powerful European counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Romance Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-05
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Charles Clément, canut de Lyon
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Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-20
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The Ebony Tower
Overview: A brash young artist invades the secluded retirement of an elderly painter and finds that the great man lives with two young women in a tantalizingly ambiguous relationship.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-01
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Double Destiny
Overview: A soldier fighting for France loses his memory and has a second career as a national leader, but in Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-11-12
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