Maurice Escande
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: November 14, 1892
Deathday: February 10, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Bifur 3
Overview: Two hitch-hikers are on the way to Marseilles pursued by her husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-08-29
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Lucrezia Borgia
Overview: French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-20
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Luck
Overview: A beautiful widow gambles away her fortune at baccarat and is forced her to sell her jewels and ask Victor for hospitality. Victor tries to seduce her but she loves the shy Gaston.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-12-24
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Kiss Me
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-10-15
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Mr Poirier's Son-in-Law
Overview: This is the story of a wealthy bourgeois who marries his only child, a daughter, to a penniless nobleman because he hopes to use his son-in-law to get a title. The son-in-law is a lazy, affected stereotype; but M. Poirier is also a stereotype, of the obnoxious big businessman. The poor daughter, who falls in love with her husband, lets him walk all over her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Jeunes filles à marier
Overview: Well-to-do Simone replaces her music-hall friend Yahne when her wealthy uncle visits from America.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-07-05
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Les Époux scandaleux
Overview: A couple get married, not out of love, but to get away from their families. When they run out of gas and have to stop at a mountain hotel, they discover their love is now real.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-07-12
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Dora Nelson
Overview: Dora Nelson, a famous actress, leaves both her husband Philippe de Moreuil and the role she was playing in a movie directed by Nivert, to follow her lover Santini in Italy. But she soon realizes that Santini deceives her with a girl named Elsa. In vexation she decides to return to her husband and to her career. Unfortunately for her, Suzanne Verdier, a little working girl, has in the meantime replaced her not only in the film she had left unfinished but in her husband's heart as well. Dora eventually understands she must step aside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-08
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Seven Men, One Woman
Overview: At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess who wishes to remarry, invites all of her seven suitors to her mansion. Her untold intention is to test them by claiming to be ruined. The experience is a success in that each of the potential husbands reveals his inner nature but a failure when it comes to finding a new life partner. None of the guests passes the test except - the eighth man, namely Brémontier who loved Lucie in secret but, being penniless, had not dared declare his flame to her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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The Two Boys
Overview: The Count of Kerlor, to chastise his wife whom he believes to be unfaithful, entrusts his son to a couple of scoundrels. When he repents and wants to find the child, the carnies make their nephew sick. But the other little boy, in search of his comrade, is recognized by his reconciled parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-08
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Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise
Overview: After he loses a servant job when his employer's mansion burns down, a yokel makes money entertaining tourists in Breton garb, lands up appearing in a Paris show ,and meets another property owning lady, this one of dubious reputation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-03
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Les Demi-Vierges
Overview: Maxime, heir to an old provincial family, is deeply in love with Maud whom he makes his fiancée. But learning that the young girl's life has not always been beyond reproach, he refuses to marry her and returns to his castle in the company of his sister who, happier than him, has met a man worthy of being in Paris. love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-04
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Les Petites Alliées
Overview: A young girl has left her family and lives as best she can on the generosity of her lovers. A naval officer introduces her to Toulon in a special environment which provides companions to sailors on leave. After some setbacks, she finds love and protection with a doctor who marries her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-27
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La Danseuse rouge
Overview: Tania, a young girl from Central Europe, leaves her home because of her abusive father. Trained, in spite of herself, in the nets of the secret services, she becomes a renowned dancer who travels the major capitals, in search of military information. In 1917, in Paris, she was arrested and sentenced to death. She will be executed despite the fervent defense of her lawyer who has fallen in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-05-21
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Liberté
Overview: Fictionalized biography of the sculptor Bartholdi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-13
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The Woman I Loved the Most
Overview: Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his life. Back home, he finds five middle-aged or elderly men sitting at the dinner table but he refuses to join the guests and goes upstairs to his bedroom. The worst is prevented thanks to a servant who has caught sight of Claude's revolver. Claude 's uncle joins his nephew and manages to persuade him not to take action. He takes him downstairs to the dining room where each in turn, the five guests start telling their own story. For it happens that they too once had their heart broken and that they too once wanted to die for love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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Café de Paris
Overview: This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-28
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Moulin Rouge
Overview: A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-12-08
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La Belle Revanche
Overview: A painter who has led a free and independent life meets true love. A jealous former lover intervenes to prevent her from being happy and succeeds in driving away the one she loves. The young woman regains a taste for life thanks to her work and her friends.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-05-12
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The Black Diamond
Overview: A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father learns that he's not her biological father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-06-25
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Patricia
Overview: Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand. But is she really a bad person? Her manners are abrupt but they only hide a heart of gold. Doesn't she bring up four orphans, Dominique, Fabien, Chantal and Jean? And as if it were not enough, she has accepted to educate another child, her niece Patricia, entrusted to her care by her irresponsible father. Thanks to her, the five young people have grown up in harmony and now they are about to find their place in society. Two of them, Jean and Patricia, who love each other, live only for the estate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-10-27
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Paris - New-York
Overview: The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-03
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Captain Fracasse
Overview: Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role: that of Captain Fracasse.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-19
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Life of Pleasure
Overview: An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-05-16
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Farandole
Overview: A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands. A crook is arrested in the house of an an actress he had fooled. In a luxury hotel, a typist kills her lover's wife. The trial of the murderer is followed by the bankruptcy of another financier and the money finally returns to the mistress of a suicide in the restaurant in which she had first appeared.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-02-10
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Father Goriot
Overview: An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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Hyménée
Overview: Although Pierre is married, he is in love with his sister in law Marianne, while he is loved by his cousin Agnés, a spinster. Marianne loves him but she prefers to marry Rémy, and ultimately Agnés leaves Pierre to his wife and kids.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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The Devil Who Limped
Overview: The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-07-11
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The Animals
Overview: Frédéric Rossif selected animal footage from 300,000 m of film, and structured his film in nine parts, from the creation of the world to the rediscovery of paradise on earth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-20
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Monsignor
Overview: Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a descendant of the kings of France, more precisely of Louis XVII (the king who never reigned). According to him he is none other than the monarch's great grandson. Louis's life is soon turned upside down as he becomes the center of attention of a group of ardent royalists. Even a duchess "gives" him her love to make sure that he accepts his role as pretender to the throne...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-16
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Love and Companionship
Overview: The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is responsible for monitoring the actions of an alluring South American whose suicide would mean the collapse of the company. Finally, the accountant discovers an attempted insurance scam and marries the surly and charming interpreter who was the liaison between the South American and himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-01-27
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Buridan, hero of the tower of Nesle
Overview: In Paris in 1314, the knight Jean Buridan is in love with Mirtille but the young woman is already coveted by the king's brother.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-24
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The Messenger
Overview: Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie, but is prevented from success in France so travels without his wife to an African outpost. He tells his young assistant Gilbert about his wife. When Gilbert takes sick and returns to Paris, he begins to fall in love with Marie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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Des quintuplés au pensionnat
Overview: In a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois, young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of Champrès' son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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Simone
Overview: Simone has been brought up by her widowed father and Hermance, the old governess. She loves her father and worships her dead mother. But nobody has ever told her about the strange circumstances in which her mother lost her life. In fact, fifteen years earlier, following a hunting party, Mme de Sergeac had been found in her bedroom, killed by gunshot. Beside her, her husband, wounded and unconscious. Now Simone is fifteen. She is in love with Michel Mignier, but she still does not know the truth. It is Hermance, the governess, who will the reveal the whole thing ...
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1918-04-12
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The Green Domino
Overview: After his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in love with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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Check on the King
Overview: Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his frivolity. After a duel against the Duke De Montgobert, whom Louis XIV recommended to Jeanne, the king forced De Villefort to marry Jeanne, then sent her to war. Separated from her husband, Jeanne discovers that she loves him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-05-15
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La Dame aux camélias
Overview: Young and handsome Armand Duval falls in love with Marguerite Gautier, a 'demi-mondaine'. He manages to persuade her to give up her life as a courtesan and they both settle down in the country. Tthe beginning of their idyll is like a dream but a short-lived one as their relationship is considered scandalous by Armand's family. During a secret visit to Marguerite, Armand's father convinces her to leave his son, which she does broken-heartedly but out of love for Armand. Her end will be doubly tragic; not only does she suffer from terminal tuberculosis but she is abandoned by everyone, including by Armand, who believes she has betrayed her. At long last, learning the truth, Armand rushes to her bedside and Marguerite has the joy to breathe her last in his arms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-06
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Cinderella
Overview: An unemployed maid is hired in a music hall to wash the floors. The whim of a screenwriter makes her go on stage in the most basic outfit. A revelation, success is at his doorstep! However, the young woman would prefer a virtuous life and a serious marriage to the easy but immoral existence offered to her by the world of entertainment.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-30
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Rooster in dough
Overview: A famous lawyer is irritated to see his fiancée spending her time trying to educate Languille, a tramp. Wanting to discourage his Saint-Bernard side, he asks a young engineer to introduce himself to her, under the guise of a tramp. But his plan turns against him, because the young man falls in love with his beautiful.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-02
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Overview: Deals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on the play of the same name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-10-07
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Man to Men
Overview: The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-01
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Queen's Necklace
Overview: The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la Motte", imagines a tortuous plan to steal a magnificent diamond necklace that the queen Marie-Antoinette refused to buy from the jewelers Boehmer and Bassange.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-09-14
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Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Overview: France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cadet from Gascony, Adhémar de Capestang, who was later to become the Capitan, left his native province to come and try his luck in Paris. Along the way, he saves a young girl, Gisèle d'Angoulême, from a masked individual who wanted to kidnap her.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-27
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La Renégate
Overview: In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita. She believes that Ricardo is her father. In reality, he took her in at the age of eighteen months in a douar abandoned during the conquest. One day a Berber chief, Tamar, sees Conchita, tells her that she is from his tribe and wants to take her away. She rejects it, then accepts later to find that Muslim civilization is incompatible with the Christian training she received. She escapes and succeeds in obtaining forgiveness from Tamar. A French officer from the Intelligence Service offers to collect it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-09
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The Tomboy
Overview: The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations and artificial pleasures previously unknown to her. These include her being seduced into a lesbian love affair by a chanteuse.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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Comment épouser un premier ministre
Overview: Philippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many female conquests. One of them, Madame Grandbourg, wife of a very influential man, sent him a passionate letter, which he lost at the theater. Marion, the usherette who found it, contacts him to ask him for a "favor" in exchange for its return: to avoid eviction from the family apartment, because of the father, who gardens in every room and constantly floods the downstairs neighbors. At first, Lambert refuses to give in to the "blackmail" and calls in the police to unmask the indelicate woman, but love soon gets in the way...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Napoleon
Overview: The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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La Ferme du choquart
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-01-13
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The Two Girls
Overview: Two girls, Ginette and Gaby, have just run away, outraged by the mistreatment of their governess. After many adventures, they will find their father, who has become a thug, and their mother who had disappeared in a shipwreck.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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La Marseillaise
Overview: A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-10
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Overview: Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-01-27
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The Strange Madame X
Overview: Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no more than a beautiful piece of furniture. Her meeting with Étienne, a young cabinetmaker with whom she falls in love, turns her dismal existence upside down. Not wanting to reveal her condition to her lover, she pretends to be a modest maid, employed by the Voisin-Larive. At the end of a weekend spent with her lover, Irène discovers that she is pregnant. The fragile balance of their existence is suddenly broken. Taking the initiative, she reveals her affair to Jacques and tells him about her desire to divorce. But her husband has no intention of giving her back her freedom...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-24
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Son altesse impériale
Overview: Prince Boris, engaged to marry Princess Dorothea, meets and falls in love with journalist Monique in Cannes.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-24
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Nantas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-01-23
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Madame Quinze
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-06-04
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