The Pedestrian (Der Fussganger) was the second filmed directorial effort of German actor Maximillian Schell. Billed third...
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1974
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The wealthy old lady (Françoise Rosay) in this French comic crime caper is largely unaware of the machinations of her...
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Aunt
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1972
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Double and triple crosses complicate the lives of the amiable villains of this French crime-caper film. The story concerns a...
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Mother
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1972
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1969
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The English translation of this French film is "It Won't Do To Take God's Children For Wild Geese." A young girl tries to...
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Leontine
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1968
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Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director...
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1967
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It is only with some reluctance that big-time hood Alphonse (Lino Ventura) allows himself to be persuaded that a major...
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1965
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This war-drama centers more on the effects of battle on civilians than it does on the bravery of the fighters as it tells...
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1965
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As young and penniless Rik roams about Rome, he finds lady luck on his side for a spell. Not only does he receive a bounty...
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1963
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In this French drama, set upon the Riviera, a widow works a jewel thief on the side. She keeps this up until she meets a...
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1963
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1962
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The friendship between two rival soldiers provides the basis of this comedy. The tale is set during the Franco-Prussian War...
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1962
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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1962
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This somewhat verbose, standard comic thriller involves one sharp gangster nicknamed Le Dabe (Jean Gabin) pitted against...
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1961
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In this heavy drama, a race car driver suffers a head injury on his wedding day and becomes a mental case. The couple puts...
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Madame Prade
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1961
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Mrs. Cheney (Lilli Palmer) is a genteel widow whose outward appearances hide her involvement as a thief. With the help of her...
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Madame Ebley
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1961
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Murky and rather uninspired, this wartime drama by director Claude Autant-Lara is set in France during World War II. At the...
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Parisot
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1960
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In this standard wartime melodrama, forty-two-year-old Danielle Darrieux plays Jeanne, an unmarried, older woman with a...
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Mother
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1959
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In this crime drama, a criminal mastermind and his gang plan to rob the Bank of Belgium during the Brussels Exposition as...
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1959
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Effective in its message that war itself is idiotic, this slowly, slowly evolving, conventional comedy drama by director...
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Grandmother
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1959
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1959
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Le Joueur is French director Claude Autant-Lara's spin on the oft-filmed Dostoyevsky novel The Gambler. Set in 19th century...
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Grandmother
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1958
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In this drama, a Jewish refugee finds himself stranded in Paris just as the Nazi invaders arrive. Desperate to escape, he...
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Mme. Bouffier
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1958
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Like many of his best works, filmmaker Douglas Sirk's Interlude is a remake of an earlier Universal soap opera. In this case,...
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Countess Reinhart
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1957
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A remake of The Painted Veil (which was itself based upon a novel by W. Somerset Maugham), The Seventh Sin stars Eleanor...
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Mother Superior
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1957
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1956
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Based on a true event from 16th century Spain, this costume drama follows the tragic life of Ana de Mendoza, Princess of...
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Bernadina
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1955
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Catherine de Medicis
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1954
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1952
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1952
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Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders...
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Mme. Demeuse
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1952
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A remake of the French Le Corbeau ("The Raven"), The Thirteenth Letter is a film noir in a curious setting -- a rural village...
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Mrs. Sims
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1951
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Autant-Lara's L'Auberge Rouge (The Red Inn) is black comedy at its very blackest. The scene is a rustic little inn in a...
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Marie Martin
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1951
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1950
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With location scenes lensed in Italy, September Affair is consistently good to look at, even when the pacing flags and the...
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Maria Salvantini
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1950
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The Naked Heart was also released as Maria Chapdelaine, which also happened to be the title of its source, a novel by Louis...
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Laura Chapdelaine
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1950
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Venerable French character actress Francoise Rosay heads the cast of On Aime Qu'une Fois. Rosay is cast as the...
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Mother
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1949
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Femmes sans Nom is the second film in a proposed trilogy conceived by Hungarian director Geza Radvanyi (the first was...
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Countess
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1949
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1949
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This lush 18th century period romance, based on historical fact, was the first color film from Britain's famed Ealing...
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Electress Sophie
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1948
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1948
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1948
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1946
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Generally forgotten today, Macadam opened to good reviews and excellent business when it first came out in 1946. The film...
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1946
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Johnny Frenchman uses humor to drive home the point that, despite all previous rivalries and hostilties, the French and...
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Lanec Florrie
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1945
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Alice Meadows
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1944
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Completed in 1941, Portrait of a Woman (Une Femme disparait) was the final effort of veteran director Jacques Feyder. Though...
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Fanny Helder
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1942
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The English-language title of this stagebound French drama is They Were Twelve Women. The eponymous leading ladies run the...
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1940
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Catherine II the Great
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1939
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1938
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1938
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Le Ruisseau (The Stream) begins as orphan girl Gaby Sylvia escapes from her guardians and stows away on board a ship. She is...
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1938
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1938
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1937
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Flora (Francoise Rosay), a hard-bitten female lion-tamer, tends to treat the people around her with the same harsh brutality...
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Flora
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1937
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In this episodic French drama, a widow uncovers a 20-year-old dance card from a ball. Just for fun, she decides to find all...
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Madame Audie
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1937
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Mme. Jouvenel
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1936
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1936
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Jenny
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1936
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In a comedy-farce that runs from black humor to slapstick, this story is one in which a mystery writer is caught unawares by...
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Margaret Molyneux
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1936
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Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and...
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Cornelia, the Burgomaster's Wife
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1935
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1934
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Jacques Feyder's sole directorial contribution in 1934 (and his first film since 1931) was the superior Foreign Legion...
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Blanche
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1934
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Set against the backdrop of the French Alps, Motherhood is the melancholy story of servant girl Marthe (Hella Muller)....
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Mme. Duchemin
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1934
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1934
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1933
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1933
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Released in English-speaking countries as Eddies, this feverish romantic melodrama involves a "damaged" husband and a...
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1933
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The "unaware papa" of the title is played by French comedian Noel-Noel. Ordered by his father to marry a wealthy heiress, our...
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1932
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Princesse Marie
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1932
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Mme. Mougeot
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1932
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1932
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1932
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Based on the stage comedy by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan (previously filmed in 1920), Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is a curious...
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1931
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Echec au Roi (The King Checkmated) was adapted from The Queen's Husband, a play by Robert E. Sherwood. The story concentrates...
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The Queen
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1931
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1931
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1931
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Also known as Le Rosier de Mme. Husson, He is based on a story by Guy De Maupassant. The story takes place in a tiny French...
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1931
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The only thing magnificent about Magnificent Lie is its title. As usual, Ruth Chatterton plays a woman of variable morals,...
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Rosa Duchene
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1931
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1931
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In this romance, a disillusioned wife, learning that her husband has been unfaithful, divorces him and moves to Paris where...
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1930
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Mile Edwige
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1930
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Metropolitan Opera diva Grace Moore made her film debut in MGM's A Lady's Morals. The film purports to be the biography of...
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1930
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The General's Wife
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1930
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Marceline Day plays two women in the late-silent Fox release One-Woman Idea. The actress is cast as haughty aristocrat Lady...
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1929
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The aunt
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1928
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1928
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Gribiche, a 1925 French production written and directed by Jacques Feyder, was distributed in America three years later under...
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1925
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In 1988, the Belgian Film Archive released a restored print of the 1925 film Visages d'enfants by the renowned Belgian...
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First Assistant Director, Screenwriter
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1925
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1923
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1913
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