Jean-Paul Muel
Also Known As: Jean-Paul Muhel
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Francheville, Rhône, France
Birthday: June 03, 1944
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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La Vie en Rose
Overview: From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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Champagne Charlie
Overview: This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctant French spy and is captured and spends time in a Union prison. There are two parallel love stories (he is French) and some battles with his uncle for control of the family vineyard (because his father married his mother who the uncle also loved).
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-12
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The Visitors
Overview: After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with his dimwitted servant, Jacquouille la Fripouille. Startled and perplexed by modern technology, the duo run amok, destroying cars and causing chaos until they meet Beatrice de Montmirail, an aristocratic descendant of the nobleman, who may be able to help them get back to 1123.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-27
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Lost Illusions
Overview: Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-20
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First Christmas
Overview: Little Rafik learns about Santa Claus in School, when he arrives just before Christmas with his Tunisian family to settle down in France in the 1960's.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-01-01
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Strictement personnel
Overview: The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French policeman is compelling throughout. Jean (Pierre Arditi) is a cop and also a failed novelist who was abandoned by his father, brother, and sister after his mother died. The trio move to Paris where they set up an art scam that nets them considerable cash -- something Jean begins to figure out when he joins them for a family reunion. Little by little, he learns that his father is an expert forger, his stepmother's art gallery seems to be involved in the scam, his brother is a derelict and into drugs, his stepmother is a hooker in addition to all of this, and his sister runs an exercise gym for keeping prostitutes in shape. Things get worse -- just when everything seems bad enough, the stepmother is murdered and it is up to Jean to find the killer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-08-21
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Paradise for All
Overview: Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-08-25
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L'Hôtel de la plage
Overview: Visitors young and old get up to fun antics and romance at a seaside hotel in Brittany, France.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-11
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Marie, the Doll
Overview: Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a store window displaying various ornate dolls. Claude, the affluent, eccentric store owner, sees her and becomes infatuated which leads to her and him meeting and deciding to go and take a look at Claude personal doll collection at his house. Marie, unaware of Claude's bizarre obsession with dolls, decides to marry him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-08-25
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Vaines recherches
Overview: An anonymous phone call puts Commissioner Schneider's entire career and personal life in question. While his couple suffers from his impossible schedules, he finds himself running after a provocative murderer who announces his crimes over the phone. Very quickly, a doubt comes over him: could the culprit be closer to him than he thought?
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-11-15
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Loonies at Large
Overview: This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal illness, and wants some sort of reconciliation with him. His therapist (Richard) decides to permit him to visit with her, provided he comes along. Except for his wide mood swings and occasional outbursts of lewd muttering, the professor "passes" for sane fairly easily. Not so the psychotic (Dominique Pinon) who stows away in the psychiatrist's car, who constantly calls attention to the other two.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-08-11
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Paris by Night
Overview: Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s between a rock and hard place: it’s obvious that criminal gangs run rampant in his special domain, and even more obvious that they’re protected by higher-ups in the department.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-04
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Sugar
Overview: Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-15
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Welcome Aboard!
Overview: A philosophizing uninvited hitchhiker terrorizes a writer, who's selling dictionaries while he's struggling with writer's block.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-08-15
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Outward Signs of Wealth
Overview: Jean-Jacques Lestrade is the owner of a renowned veterinary clinic in Paris who lives in a luxurious apartment. He is part of Parisian high society and lives a wealthy lifestyle surrounded by young women and money. He relies on his trusty accountant, Jérôme Bouvier, to manage his finances. All goes well until the day that Béatrice Flamand, a tax inspector, shows up at his clinic, at which point Lestrade is now in trouble.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-09
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The Two Crocodiles
Overview: Rene (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a small-time crook who tries to shake down storekeeper Emile (Jean Carmet) in this uneven and humorless comedy. Things change when Rene starts to fall for the terminally boring and provincial Emile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-10-14
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Rendez-vous au tas de sable
Overview: A tow truck driver becomes the impresario, then the singer of a new rock band.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-31
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The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Overview: The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent, the effete Jacquart, present-day owner of the chateau, further complicates the matter.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-02-11
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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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Hothead
Overview: François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-14
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D 14
Overview: A visitor goes to an administrative service to obtain a domiciliation certificate. It is received by an employee, visibly refractory, who multiplies the requests for forms to put together the file...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-25
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The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard
Overview: Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of Mona, who has left her father, the railway gatekeeper, after being raped on the train track. She is kidnapped and taken to a Parisian whorehouse. However, a disinherited prince, Dudu who tries to rescue her, is himself kidnapped and forced to serve as a male prostitute. The two captives meet there and fall in love. They are taken away by different rich people - he to an Arab "harem," she to a surgeon's home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-09-03
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Le voyage à Paimpol
Overview: The dream, which filled half of her life, was no longer enough for Maryvonne. She leaves her husband, child, lover and leaves for Paimpol. And there, it's a breath of fresh air in the form of real life, reality finally joins the dream.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-11-27
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The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
Overview: A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-19
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The Accuser
Overview: In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-07
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Angel's Skin
Overview: Héléna Werner leads a reclusive and deserted life. Alone, as if withdrawn from the world in her apartment of refined luxury. She places an ad for a private secretary, a "handyman" who would take her away from the daily grind. As soon as he starts working, Milo adopts an intriguing behavior. From the start, he takes everything in hand and the doors of the apartment close on them both.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-29
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Bluebeard
Overview: When Barbe-bleue loses his fifth wife, the turbulent Boulotte is selected at random to be the next one. But Barbe-Bleue falls in love with Hermia – who loves the shepherd Saphir – and soon wearies of Boulotte. So, he asks his alchemist to concoct for him an “anti-wife” philtre. But, as on the previous occasions, it is merely a sleeping potion and Boulotte wakes up the other five “dead” wives. They reappear, dressed up as gypsies and bring the truth to light.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-18
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Revenge of a Blonde
Overview: An upstanding provincial reporter becomes presenter of the TV news on a commercial network owned by an influential Italian businessman. He soon outgrows his family and neglects them terribly. Investigating a fascist terrorist cell, the reporter's integrity is called into doubt by the police. Soon after, his jealous wife unleashes her wrath live in TV. It goes from bad to worse until his wife's anger brings him back to his senses and back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-26
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Short Circuit
Overview: Gérald, former champion of motorcycle competitions, after an accident that causes him to lose the use of his right becomes a trainer for young riders. But because he can not make enough money, he takes part in a burglary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-02-11
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Want to Stay Alive
Overview: Four murders in forty-eight hours happen in Nice. The murderer calls himself "The Exterminator" and the police are unable to catch him. Tom Lepski is an insurance detective and he get involved in the investigation when Liza Mendoza, a famous violinist and a friend, is killed just a few minutes before Tom visit her. After another rich woman killing, Tom finds out that all the victims were members of the exclusive Fifty Club. All of them but Lisa.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-02-24
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
Overview: It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-26
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In and Out
Overview: Two couples, Pierre and Aimée, Éric and Pénélope, all share four years of friendship without cloud. Only concern, Penelope and Pierre have become lovers ... The situation becoming untenable, they decide to break. But after a final night of passionate love, fate plays a trick on them: Peter and Penelope each wake up in the body of the other! To protect their secrecy, they each find themselves having to live the life of the other. This is the beginning of the complications ...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-20
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The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Overview: In 1951, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the private detective Nestor Burma was commissioned by an insurance company to find stolen jewelery. The deal seemed easy and Burma got an appointment with a well-known black trumpet player in the neighborhood who could provide him with information. But the musician does not come and we find him murdered. The investigation becomes more complicated and Nestor must find an alibi so as not to be suspected of the crime.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-06-01
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Double Lover
Overview: Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity.
Genres: Romance Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-26
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The Elegant Criminal
Overview: On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-12-19
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Promised... sworn!
Overview: The life and love affairs of a 12-year-old boy Pierre who lived in France during the Nazi occupation in 1944. We see his family, his chubby friend, the girl who ignores him - and the German defector who hides in the cellar. He suffers from a slightly more prominent nasal appendage than the average of his congeners. This complex initially serving it, will ultimately be the detonator of his success with women and the entire population of the city.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-12-09
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Elle voit des nains partout !
Overview: La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le roi deçu de n'avoir pas un fils est résolu à faire disparaître sa progéniture mais c'est sans compter sur la protection de nombreux personnages de la littérature enfantine : les fées, Tarzan, Robin des Bois ou d'autres encore...
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-04-07
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Entrusted
Overview: Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-03
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Rumeurs
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-21
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Périgord noir
Overview: The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the theme of this political comedy. Adiza, who has been living well in France, has decided that she will return and buy the plantation she and her compatriots were expelled from, and enlists some unlikely helpers to bring them back into the country and enact their plot. Meanwhile, these "local" blacks are unwittingly accepted by the other landowners as more cheap labor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-06-21
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Jenatsch
Overview: A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-06-01
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Scarlet Fever
Overview: In a building on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris lives ten-year-old Roger, who is surrounded by women - his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his mother Nicole. Living in an exclusively feminine environment, the boy wishes more than anything else to have a masculine presence around. His dream comes true when he meets Jacques, who's madly in love with Nicole and who is about to completely turn the boy's life upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-08-08
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Next Summer
Overview: Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. As the marriage between them unravels, Edouard's daughters experience their own emotional shock waves. Dina, in a relationship with playwright Paul, wants more from her daily life, while Sidone is married to a fellow musician but is terrified of performing in public. Fast-forward seven years: Edouard is gravely ill, and the family shares their issues, hopes and fears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-09
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Armageddon
Overview: After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-16
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Passage interdit
Overview: Residents of an old building in a Parisian neighborhood are fighting against a plan to turn the place into a shopping center.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-03
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A Day to Remember
Overview: Bertille is an old woman who lives in the countryside. Her relatives reunite there with her as she is about selling the property. They don't take long to out their true intentions which are merely material on her estate. Also, Bertille is afflicted by her youngest son who has been in prison for a decade. Decades of fighting over Einstein's stick of truth has made Bertille very frail and easy to come down on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-03-20
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The House that Mary Bought
Overview: When a brilliant artist and her husband become subject to a series of bizarre occurrences in their isolated house in Brittany they both suspect that the other person is responsible.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Madame Sourdis
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Genres: TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-31
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Kamikaze
Overview: A disgruntled scientist is fired from his job; slipping into madness, he invents a machine which harnesses the airwaves and can shoot people through the TV screen.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-10
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Cellini: A Violent Life
Overview: The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of three 90 minutes episodes, broadcasted by RaiDue.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-05-02
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