Jacques Jouanneau
Also Known As: Жак Жуанно, Jouanneau
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 03, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 19, 2011
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Par ici la monnaie
Overview: All the inhabitants of an old house are swindlers, dreaming only of the big score that will enable them to survive an announced eviction. They end up pulling it off together, by building a fake tollgate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-03
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Asterix the Gaul
Overview: In the year 50 BC, Gaul is occupied by the Romans - nearly. But the small village of Asterix and his friends still resists the Roman legions with the aid of their druid's magic potion, which gives superhuman strength. Learning of this potion, a Roman centurion kidnaps the druid to get the secret formula out of him.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-12-20
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Should Not!...
Overview: Bernard, an executive for a big company, tries to get home in time for his wedding but is caught in the middle of a mass suicide. He saves a sect member who then follows him like a puppy, and is chased by the sect leaders, two over-the-top crooks with bloated egos and a craving for money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-20
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Judex
Overview: Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex whose revenge against the corrupt banker Favraux unleashes a complicated series of schemes.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-04
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The Elusive Corporal
Overview: The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-05-23
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Crazy in the Noodle
Overview: Pierre Cousin, a depressive compositor, wants to die. After five vain attempts at committing suicide, he decides to hire professional hit men to do the job on him. But as he's waiting for death, he accidentally saves a suicidal young woman's life... and falls in love. Having suddenly found a reason to live, he now fears the killers he himself hired. Is there still time to call off his contract?
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-14
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The Skirt Chaser
Overview: A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-17
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Daisy Town
Overview: When the members of a caravan of pioneers find a daisy growing in the middle of the desert they decide to stop there and to build their town on this very spot. Houses soon spring up like mushrooms, immediately followed by a bank, a saloon, a prison, etc. Daisy Town is born. Unfortunately a city does not go without its bad boys and the peaceful place is soon turned into a lawless place. To restore law and order, a lawman is needed. Lucky Luke, the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow, will be this man: all the villains had better watch out!
Genres: Animation Comedy Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-01
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Sadsacks In the Boarding School
Overview: 1978, France. Young recruits are secretly digging an underground tunnel to get to the boarding school for girls, located in front of their barracks. Sexual girls are digging a tunnel towards...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-05-17
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Les pieds nickelés
Overview: Three tramps in search of adventure and fortune decide to try their luck at swindling. After an initial failure at shoplifting, they take over a bateau-mouche and exploit tourists in their own way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-30
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For a Distant Love
Overview: A delicious love story has been taken place in Rio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-08-23
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Les gros malins
Overview: Paul Blanc runs a butcher's shop with his Neapolitan wife, the vivacious Giulia. One night, thanks to sleeping pills received from his brother in Argentina, he dreams of horse racing and sees in his dream the order of arrival of the horses. Giulia praises her husband's gift at the local café. But the turfmen dissuade her from betting on the nags chosen by Paul, who they consider to be real losers! But her vision proves to be right. When her secret is discovered, everyone wants to buy this miracle medicine. But the product is no longer manufactured, as it is considered dangerous and has been banned by the authorities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-13
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The Ones That Got Away
Overview: In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-02-25
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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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Prêcheur en eau trouble
Overview: Simon, an itinerant "new age" preacher, picks up Gael in his camper, without knowing that the young man is wanted by the police for having freed animals destined for vivisection. And, as if that wasn't enough, Charlotte, a young single mother, and Lucas, her baby, wanted by gangsters, are hiding in his vehicle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-10-10
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Room Service
Overview: The countess and her son, irresponsible but sweet viscount Louis, own the castle Montverdier, which is falling apart. Fernand Castanier is the baker in the neighboring town Mussy-sur-Ploute.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-24
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Le Misanthrope
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-20
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Le Tombeur !!!
Overview: Yes, Doudou (or, more respectfully, Edouard Doucin) is both heir to a big sugar refinery and its managing director but he is also an incorrigibly bashful bachelor, which just exasperates his aunt Agatha. Summoned to marry as soon as possible, Doudou is fortunate enough to meet Babette , an elegant young lady who wishes to introduce him to her parents. When he comes to visit them, he mistakes the floor out of nervousness. In fact,he finds himself at the Lautiers' not the Olivaros'. Now, chance has it that this couple of shopkeepers also have a marriageable daughter. And as Poupette is romantic, passionate and adorable, Doudou can't find the nerve to disappoint her. As a result the young man gets engaged...twice ! How the devil will he cope ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-07-02
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Two Big Girls in Pyjamas
Overview: A French man invites two Sweden girls to spend time with him after his wife left for vacation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-26
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Rene the Cane
Overview: "René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La Banquière" (1980). His film is an adaptation of a story by Roger Borniche about the gangster René Girier and relates the fantastic adventures of a flamboyant mobster (René/Gérard Depardieu) and a maverick police inspector (Fernand la Sournoise/Michel Piccoli), through the 1940s.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-02-16
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Parisian Life
Overview: Two young Parisians, Raoul de Gardefeu and Bobinet, are in love with Metella, a beautiful young woman aspiring to high society. Metella rejects them both in favour of a richer and older man.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-12-14
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Bed and Board
Overview: Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-09
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Life Together
Overview: The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-24
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Love Is at Stake
Overview: Bob, a talented draftsman, and his young wife Marie-Blanche, a young antique dealer, adore their only son Gégé. But for the most trivial of pretexts, the couple often quarrel. A more serious quarrel leads to separation and divorce proceedings. Gégé spends a week with one of them, and a week with the other, each vying with the other for the little one's affection. But Gégé realizes that he can perhaps initiate a reconciliation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-26
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Potiche
Overview: Suzanne Pujol is the submissive wife of a rich industrialist who is as unpleasant with his family as with his workers. Following a strike in the company, Suzanne takes the place of her husband, who is disowned by his staff. She proves to be a woman of leadership and action, which provokes the anger of her husband and her former lover, a communist deputy...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-12-21
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Madame et son auto
Overview: Sophie Dirondel, history teacher at the Saint-Cloison-sur-Ermoise, wins the jackpot of a lottery, a 2CV. The good-natured woman is both happy and slightly upset, as she doe not have her driving-license. But she decides to take driving lessons and although she does not prove very gifted she manages to pass the test. She grasps the opportunity to achieve one of her sweetest dreams and, proudly sitting behind her wheel, heads for the City of Light. Alone in Paris, she gets to know Victor Martini, a smooth operator. The man who, in real fact, is the leader of a gang, has no problem bamboozling the naive woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-15
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French Cancan
Overview: Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-04-09
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Napoléon II, the Eagle
Overview: The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken in and raised by his grandfather, Emperor Francis, who made him an Austrian prince.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Paris, Palace Hôtel
Overview: On Christmas Eve, a manicurist pretends to be a wealthy man's daughter after meeting a young garage worker who falsely claims to own a luxury car. Their deceptions intertwine as they grow closer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-18
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Friends of the family
Overview: Leon Rollo whose nickname is "Patate" is an inventor adored by his wife and is daughter. He is mostly happy but his best friend Noël seems to succeed in everything he undertakes... Patate become increasingly jealous of this incredible luck.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-20
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L'or du duc
Overview: A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-23
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Un enfant dans la ville
Overview: "Un enfant dans la ville" was originally a Michel Fugain album, a record that already told a story. Now it's a musical comedy filmed for television, giving life to its characters and taking up the story of the record, that of today's generation, not quite at ease in their sneakers and trying to untie the laces of truth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-12
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The Grand Manoeuvre
Overview: Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-10-26
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Adieu Berthe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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Captain Slipper
Overview: A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not better.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-31
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Le colonel est de la revue
Overview: To spice up a life that's too quiet, a couple of friends play at being gangsters, but end up meeting some real hoodlums.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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Follow Me Young Man
Overview: Françoise, a charming young saleswoman for a leading jeweller, is being courted in vain by a billionaire shipowner. He attributes her failure to the existence of a rival, and decides to have her followed by a private detective. Françoise, commissioned by her boss to transport a valuable necklace to Cannes, is accompanied by a bodyguard charged with her safety. Françoise, the bodyguard and the detective meet on the train and a series of misunderstandings ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-03
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S.O.S. homme seul
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-07-29
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The Scheming Women
Overview: The renowned theatre manager, Paul Rémy, is accused by his general secretary Andrieux of having killed his partner. On the advice of his wife Mona, Paul goes into hiding in a psychiatric hospital to escape from the police. But Andrieux seduces Mona who then turns against her husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-07
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Let's Be Daring, Madame
Overview: Two couples of friends who have arranged to meet in the woods get lost and find themselves in an embarrassing situation: the husband of one with the wife of the other? Each couple tries to get through this forced cohabitation honestly, but everything is turned upside down when two young Sunday gangsters appear. What follows is a cross-country chase through the woods, which leads the whole gang back to the house, where one of the couples manages to leave, free at last, on an old tandem, bound for... Africa!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-07
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Le Permis de conduire
Overview: Michel Martenot (Louis Velle) works in a bank consumption, is recommended and intended for children. His professional skills were appreciated by his boss and promoted Michel. He becomes deputy director of an agency in central Paris. Unfortunately, not having a driving license means that you will have to track a lot of time commuting to public transport. To start the business on his family and professional life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-30
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Witness in the City
Overview: Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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The Legend of Frenchie King
Overview: Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-16
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Peek-a-boo
Overview: A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-15
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The Three from the Filling Station
Overview: Three young men working at a filling station fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-09
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Folle Amanda
Overview: A former music hall singer, Amanda lives day by day while remaining optimistic. Short of money, she wants to publish her memoirs. But her ex-husband Philippe, minister-in-office, wants to dissuade her ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-12-04
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Croque-monsieur
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-09-10
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Asterix and Cleopatra
Overview: Popular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have made a bet, with Caesar wagering the project cannot be completed in a few weeks time. With the help of a magic potion, Asterix comes to the rescue of the Queen of the Nile as Caesar and an angry architect plot against them.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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Un coup dans l'aile
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-31
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We'll Grow Thin Together
Overview: Victor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer. To add insult to injury, he tells Victor he is paunchy. The unfortunate man becomes obsessed by his weight. He goes out of his way to lose pounds, abetted by his wife, Corinne, who puts him on a reducing diet. He must also go to a health center where he takes exercise. Nothing really works. And one day, in a brewery, he cannot withstand his diet anymore and he has a gastronomic meal. Desperate, he tries his luck at a weight watchers reunion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-15
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Bobosse
Overview: Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an actor more intensively. He plays in a piece where a man is abandoned by his wife and processes this philosophically. When his wife actually abandons him, he becomes embarrassed and plans to kill her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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La Queue du Diable
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Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-02
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Triplex
Overview: A lawyer defending once successful computer programmer against her prosecuting lawyer boyfriend becomes romantically involved with his client.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-04-17
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Tintin and the Temple of the Sun
Overview: When seven archaeologists find an ancient Inca temple, they become victims of an ancient curse. Back in Europe, one by one they fall into a deep sleep and only once a day, all at the same time, they wake up for a few minutes and experience hallucinations where the sinister living mummy of Rascar Capac appears.
Genres: Animation Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-13
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Elena and Her Men
Overview: Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love. When Elena elicits the fascination of a famous general, she finds herself at the center of romantic machinations and political scheming, with the hearts of several men—as well as the future of France—in her hands.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-12
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Lily et Lily
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-12-25
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