Antoine de Caunes
Also Known As: Paul Persavon
Biography: Antoine de Caunes (born 1 December 1953) is a French television presenter, actor, writer and film director. He is the son of two prominent French personalities, television journalist-reporter Georges de Caunes and television announcer Jacqueline Joubert. He is the father of the actress Emma de Caunes. He began his career writing theme songs for cartoons for Antenne 2 under the pseudonym of Paul Persavon, including Cobra and Space Sheriff Gavan (known in France as X-Or). His early TV appearances included Chorus (1975), the series Les Enfants du rock, again for A2, and then his breakthrough with Nulle part ailleurs for Canal+. De Caunes came to fame in the English-speaking world on the BBC2 television series Rapido, notable for his catchphrase, in the thickest of French accents, "Rap, Rap, Rap, Rapiiiidoo". He then went on to create the long-running adult entertainment programme Eurotrash with Jean-Paul Gaultier for Channel 4. He also presented a short-lived chat show on Channel 4 called Le Show. In addition he appeared in an advertising campaign for Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles ice lollies. From 2013 until 2015, he hosted the daily evening show Le Grand Journal on Canal+. He provided voices in the Aardman Animation TV show Rex the Runt. He is a long-time AIDS awareness campaigner, fronting the organisation Solidarité sida (AIDS Solidarity). Source: Article "Antoine de Caunes" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Birthday: December 01, 1953
Age: 71 years old
Gender: Male
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Never Twice
Overview: After much hesitation, a gigolo decides to take a shot of a radical remedy to save his failing virility.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Gods Must Be Daring
Overview: A priceless statuette "Dancing God" is transfered from Africa to France. Scoundrels of all stripes are dreaming of steeling it. The most clever of them are trying to replace the original with the copy. Chases, adventures, breathtaking stunts, shootouts - life is not worth a penny, when the priceless treasure is on stake.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-04-30
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Can You Keep a Secret?
Overview: Delphine passes herself off as her boss's lover.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-07
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Blanche
Overview: In 17th century France, cardinal Mazarin's death squad kills young Blanche's parents. She grows up to become a thief and steels a substance called Powder of the Devil and a coded letter that were sent to cardinal Mazarin. He is furious.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-09-18
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Man Is a Woman
Overview: Simon Eskenazy is a gay Parisian clarinet player who lives his single life to the fullest. One day, he receives a very tempting offer from his homophobic uncle, looking to continue the family legacy – if he gets married and has a child, he will receive ten million francs and inherit his uncle's luxurious mansion. After meeting Rosalie Baumann at his cousin David's wedding, and with some convincing on his mother's part, Simon sees an opportunity to fulfill his uncle's wishes and the pair go ahead and get married, but not before traveling to New York to meet Rosalie's Orthodox Jewish family. As Simon tries to develop real feelings for Rosalie, he struggles with his feelings for his newlywed cousin David.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-11
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Toqué de Tokyo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-15
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The Color of Lies
Overview: In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-13
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48 Hours a Day
Overview: A young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband's help with the household chores.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-06-04
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Chili con carne
Overview: Living in perfect harmony with three former boy friends, three kids from these boy friends and her grand mother, Irène came to France from Chili twenty years ago.It would be broken with the arrival of Claude.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-29
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CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
Overview: Primetime special to celebrate 30 years of CANAL+.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-04
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He's My Girl
Overview: A clarinetist is trying to finish his record when his wife and ten year old son reappear in his life. His 10-year-old son whom he has never seen, and Naim, a young Muslim transvestite who will change his life ...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-03
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The Car Keys
Overview: Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-10
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De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Overview: For seven years, Antoine de Caunes and José Garcia made their mark on French comedy history each evening in prime-time on their show, "Nulle part Ailleurs".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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A Perfect Friend
Overview: "Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many mysteries Julien has to resolve. Who is Marl?ne, the beautiful woman who claims to be his girlfriend? Why doesn't his real girlfriend, Anna, return his calls? What made him walk out on his job as a leading investigative reporter? Julien relies on Lucas, his best friend and
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-04-26
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De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de Nulle part ailleurs 2 ... suite et fin !
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-31
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Two Dads and One Mom
Overview: Jérôme and Delphine want a child but Jerome is sterile. They then ask the best friend of Jerome, Salim, to be the donor for artificial insemination of the mother...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-04-24
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César Awards, de Caunes Era
Overview: Antoine de Caunes will host the 47th Cesar ceremony, the big party that celebrates French cinema. The man is experienced in this exercise of master of ceremonies since he will officiate for the tenth time in his career since 1996. The 68-year-old TV presenter looks back on the best memories of the Césars, meetings with actors, filmmakers, small sketches with the guests... Antoine de caunes shares the secrets of a successful presentation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-23
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Mumu
Overview: The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. He is sent to a small boarding school in a small village. Mumu reigns over here. She's not the bitchest school teacher of the area. Roger has already been expelled from several schools and this is his last chance to avoid the reformatory his father has been promising him for a long time. But this is will change with the vigilance of Mumu, who, despite her strict aspects, proves herself to have a big heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-24
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Cinderella: Once Upon a Time in the West
Overview: Cinderella is transformed for a night at the royal ball, but finds herself battling a band of gorilla pirates who have kidnapped Prince Vladimir and the Duchess. Will she have time to save the day and fall in love before the clock strikes twelve?
Genres: Animation Family Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-07-25
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Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle
Overview: In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To become a champion. His greatest tragedy? Not having the legs his heart deserves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-14
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Neuf mecs - Le film
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-03-21
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Pentimento
Overview: In this frothy comedy, Lucie never knew her father, but she somehow finds out he has recently died and is to be buried on a certain day at a certain cemetary. In a belated attempt to connect with her roots, she rushes to the cemetary and joins a funeral gathering. She gets to know the people at the ceremony and is soon embroiled in an art smuggling scheme and has some (probably incestuous) romantic feelings for a young man she believes may be her brother. Eventually she finds out that she went to the wrong part of the cemetary and that these people are not her kin.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-12-13
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A Song for Eurotrash
Overview: A satirical look at Eurovision featuring cover versions of classic songs.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-12
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Tell Me Iggy
Overview: This new intimate documentary looks at the extraordinary journey of the 75-year-old American rocker, who has come back from everything, and especially from the worst, but with his capacity for wonder intact.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-23
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Uderzo, sur le divan d'Astérix
Overview: Documentary on Astérix's illustrator Uderzo, led by Antoine de Caunes with interviews from various French celebrities.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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Dangereuses retrouvailles
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-04-19
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Les amants du bagne
Overview: In 1923, Albert Londres, the famous reporter, travels to the French penal colony in French Guyana. First, officers try to hide the truth, but leaded by his own instinct he begins an investigation alongside the authorities. He didn't expect to find such inhuman conditions. He meets a prisoner, Camille, and his wife, Claudia, who's in French Guyana to find a way to free her husband. He decides to help her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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L'Olympia, du rêve à la scène
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-12-20
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Return to Algiers
Overview: Famous TV news anchorman Pierre Nivel left Algiers for France in 1962. That's been a secret; his Paris co-workers have never known that he was formerly an Algerian pied noir. An Algerian delivers an urgent message to Pierre from a Leïla Jalal... Algiers, 1962. The Nivels live in the same apartment building as the Moslem Jalal family. Lycée student Pierre is in love with their daughter, Leïla. The civil unrest in Algeria is heating up and violence is spreading in Algiers. At school, Pierre is friends with a Moslem student, Issam, but he is made fun of for that... Pierre's jet arrives in Algiers. As a celebrity, Pierre is met on arrival by a government official, Nader Mansour. Because of the civil war raging between the government and Islamic terrorists, they drive into the city in a heavily armed convoy. Pierre does not tell Mansour his real reason for returning: Leïla has asked him to help her daughter Amina escape to safety in France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-12
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En tatanes à Manhattan
Overview: Eleven years after the trauma of Sept. 11 , Antoine de Caunes, is going to take the pulse of New York and check if the metropolis is still the center of global creativity. He paces Manhattan but Brooklyn , Staten Island or Rockaway Beach , Queens , where he does not hesitate to wet the shirt for an introductory session to surf. This appointment with Liberty in New York unleashed led the Wall Street along the movement " Occupy Wall Street ", which celebrates its first anniversary . Then he goes to meet the kings of the night. His wanderings led him to meet a candidate for president , king of the absurd , organic cooks who cultivate their gardens in the city center or a naturalist in Central Park.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-07
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Amnesty International's Big 30
Overview: In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversary live at Radio City Music Hall.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-28
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Bob le magnifique
Overview: A journalist with various personal problems invents an adventure hero whose adventures he recounts in a daily soap opera.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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La Génération des Enfants du rock
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Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-02-16
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Baba de Barcelone
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-25
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En Berline à Berlin
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-09
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Maboul de Séoul
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-11
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Eurotrash Unzipped
Overview: Naughty moments from the long-running Channel 4 show about how naughty those Europeans are. Includes clips featuring first series co-presenter and fashion supremo Jean-Paul Gaultier, and tv comedian Graham Norton. Hosted as ever by the evergreen and debonair Antoines de Caunes.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-19
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Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
Overview: Chronicling the definitive story behind the creation of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's "Born to Run" album, this exclusive documentary incorporates rarely seen archival film shot inside the studio, recent band interviews and intimate footage of the artists at work.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-23
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Kaamelott: The First Chapter
Overview: Following the end of the acclaimed tv series, King Arthur will oppose Lancelot's army to get the throne back after his flee to Rome.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-21
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The Ruts: Live from Le Théâtre de l'Empire, Paris
Overview: Recorded live in Paris for Chrous TV. Malcolm Owen would be dead six months after the filming of this concert, but the legacy of The Ruts live on through the works of the artists they'd influenced over the years. Songs include: "Jah War" "Babylon's Burning" and "In a Rut".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-13
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For a Good Cause
Overview: When 12-year-old Tonin's teacher announces that he is looking for volunteers to house one of several orphan African refugees for a month during their visit to Paris, the exuberent, well-meaning youth immediately offers his own abode. His classmates cheer and he feels happy until he broaches the subject with his parents. Daniel, the boy's father is delighted by his son's humanitarianism, but still says no. Not wanting to lose face at school, Tonin decides to take the visitor anyway and just keep him hidden for the next few weeks. This family-oriented French comedy follows his efforts to keep his new African guest, Moussa, a secret.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-02-05
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La télé des années 80 - Les 10 ans qui ont tout changé
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Genres: Documentary Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-01-19
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Chorus : La première émission Rock d'Antoine de Caunes
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-15
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Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
Overview: Inspired even as a boy by the Folies Bergere, the legendary Paris cabaret venue, couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier always wanted to stage a show there. "But what story can I tell?" he muses in this doc about the six months of preparation that went into the show. "Mine." Combining fashion with film, dance, theater, and unapologetic over-the-top-ness, the revue offers a 40-year career retrospective of the designer who is practically never spoken of without using the phrase enfant terrible. Notorious among cinephiles for his costumes for The Fifth Element and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and among pop fans for Madonna's pointy cone brassiere, he also incorporated teddy bears and S&M fetish gear as design motifs. In the show, the fanciful and outrageous meets the naughtily witty (a skit sending up Vogue dragon lady Anna Wintour) and the poignant (a tribute to his partner Francis Menuge, who died in 1990).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-19
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Mr. Bean's Holiday
Overview: Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-22
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Canal+ Replay
Overview: Mr. Replay hosts a TV special where more than 30 French comedians "replay" iconic Canal+ original programmings.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-04-02
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The Jews
Overview: Four separate stories deal with stereotypical ideas about Jews: their alleged influence on politics, the stereotype of Jewish business-mindedness, the Mossad, the Jewish world conspiracy and the memory of the Holocaust.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-06-01
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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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40
Overview: Primetime special to celebrate 40 years of CANAL+.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-04
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The Dark Side of Porn: Death of a Porn Star
Overview: A look at the life and mysterious death of the woman with the largest breasts in the world, French porn star Lolo Ferrari.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-28
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Bruuuuuce By Antoine
Overview: Antoine de Caunes meets The Boss to promote the "Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band" documentary.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-10-25
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L'Homme à la tête de kraft
Overview: Antoine and Emma are on their way to a festival a few kilometers away from Trouville. Suddenly, a man in the middle of the road, bare-chested, with a brown sack on his head, blocks their way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-02-13
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En route pour le SNL
Overview: French artists talk about the American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-02-18
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Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)
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Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-10-22
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Untitled de caunes Documentary
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Original Language: fr
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