This beautiful if ponderous soufflé of a film from director Bernardo Bertolucci serves more as an Italian travelogue than a...
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M. Guillaume
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1996
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Noted French filmmaker Demy's wife Agnes Varda helmed this intensely personal tribute to her late husband. It is her third...
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1995
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Not a strict adaptation of the oft-filmed Victor Hugo classic, director Claude Lelouch's ambitious epic instead focuses on...
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1995
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The small port town in Brittany in this movie has its charms, but they are largely invisible to the children growing up...
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Old Lame Man
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1992
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When his brother is murdered, a policeman is caught between his devotion to the law and his family's desire for revenge in...
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1989
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In this drama, the popular French film star of the '30s and '40s Jean Marais plays Victor, a disgruntled, cranky old man who...
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Victor Blaise
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1986
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1986
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1985
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Originally titled Peau D'Ane, Jacques Demy's Dos Cruces en Danger Pass is better known by its English-language title Donkey...
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King
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1970
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1969
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1968
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In the third installment of the parodic Fantomas series, the eponymous arch criminal imposes the "right-to-live" tax on the...
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Fandor,Fantomas
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1967
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A French Army Captain (Jean Marais) and his adjunct (Sydney Chaplin) are separated from their unit during the Napoleonic Wars...
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Captain
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1967
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The Saint (Jean Marais) and his dim-witted sidekick Uniatz (Jess Hahn) spring in to action in this slapstick comedy spy...
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Saint
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1966
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Napoleon's son is stopped from claiming the throne from his father by their enemies. ~ Rovi...
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1966
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In the second installment of the parodic Fantomas series, the title arch criminal and master of disguise kidnaps prominent...
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Fandor,Fantomas,Prof. Lefebvre
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1965
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In this adventure, a secret society, the Sons of the Panther, stop a ring of jewel thieves from stealing diamonds from a...
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Jean-Luc Herve de la Tommeraye
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1965
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In this crime drama, a gang of political hit-men are waiting for the perfect moment launch their cold-blooded attack. ~...
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1965
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Stanislas (Jean Marais) is a wealthy and well-heeled French secret agent who is called out of retirement for another mission...
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Stanislas
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1965
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1965
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In this French comedy, a toy inventor travels to the factory of his childhood friend, now an industrial magnate, and tries...
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Noel Carradine
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1964
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This movie is the first in a trilogy that parodied the popular silent Fantomas serials of director Louis Feuillade, which...
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Fandor,Fantomas
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1964
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1963
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Reluctant Spy is a title that could have been applied to any number of espionage spoofs in the 1960s. This French film stars...
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1963
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1963
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An aging musketeer is called out of retirement to help a king in this comic swashbuckler. The king's twin brother is freed...
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D'Artagnan
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1962
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One of several versions of a steamy novel by Eugene Sue, Les Mystères de Paris is set at the turn of the 20th century and...
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Rodolphe de Sombreuil
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1962
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This Italian drama tells the story of Christ's crucifixion from the viewpoint of the Roman emperor's procurator in Israel who...
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1962
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1962
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An undistinguished, low-budget costume drama about a classical topic in Roman history, L'Enlevement des Sabines, by...
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1961
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Based on a novel by Henri Dupuy-Mazuel, this costume drama is set in the 16th century during the time of the French king,...
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Robert
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1961
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Based on a novel by Theophile Gautier, this costume drama by Pierre Gaspard-Huit is set in 17th-century France and centers...
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Fracasse
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1961
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This tragedy of two star-crossed lovers, directed by Jean Delannoy, is based on a 17th-century novel by Madame de La Fayette....
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Prince De Cleves
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1961
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Faced with her impending death if found guilty of witchcraft, a young woman is saved by a mysterious man. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1961
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Andre Hunebelle directs this talky, standard costume drama set in the court of King Louis XIII in the 17th century. King...
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Francois
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1960
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In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly...
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Carnot
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1960
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1960
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Set in the 18th century, this French swashbuckler centers on Lagardere (Jean Marais), an adventurer whose life is affected...
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Lagardere
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1959
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This nonsensical swashbuckler stars Jean Marais as a "lovable rogue" named LaTour. Generally loyal to no one but himself, La...
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La Tour
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1958
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As France's conflicts with Austria grow, 18th century travelers find themselves entangled in the mess. ~ Rovi...
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1958
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An espionage romp inspired by a dying man brings a spy out of retirement in this crime film. ~ Rovi...
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1958
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The trials and tribulations of Olga (Danielle Delorme) begin when her plane crashes in the jungles of South America. Legally...
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Xavier
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1958
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French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death...
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1958
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Lodger
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1957
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1957
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This Franco-Japanese production made the American TV rounds as Typhoon Over Nagasaki. Jean Marais heads the cast as Pierre, a...
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Pierre
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1957
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Filmed in 1957 but not released in the U.S. until 1962, Girl in His Pocket was released to more liberal markets as Nude in...
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Prof. Jerome
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1957
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In the 1950s, French films were considered the ne plus ultra in naughtiness by certain impressionable filmgoers. It was to...
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Gen. Francois Rollan
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1956
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1956
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Producer/director Sacha Guitry's contribution to the 1956 film season was the free-flowing historical pageant Si Paris Nous...
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Francois I
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1956
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Toute la Ville Accuse (The Whole Town Accuses) unfolds the tale of writer François Nerac (Jean Marais), who sets up camp in a...
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1956
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Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic...
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1955
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In this erotic French romance two lovely women compete for the love of the same man. The film is also known as Joy of...
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1955
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Futures Vedettes (Future Stars) relies upon the appeal of its cast to coast by. Jean Marais plays a handsome singing teacher...
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1955
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This French/Italian adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo began as a two-part film, the entire project running...
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Edmond Dantes
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1954
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Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs...
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Louis XV
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1954
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A French boarding school is where a detective searches for a killer. ~ Rovi...
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1953
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Julietta (Dany Robin) is not fond of the wealthy older man (Bernard Lancret) whom her mother has selected for her husband....
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Andre Landecourt
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1953
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1953
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1953
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La Voca del Silenzio (Voice of Silence) was the only Italian production of fabled German director G. W. Pabst. Based on a...
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1953
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Nez de Cuir is a lesser but still fascinating exercise from French director Yves Allegret. The title translates to...
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Roger
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1952
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1952
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Dany Robin plays a modern-day Cinderella in Les Amants de Minuit. On Christmas Eve, lonely shopgirl Francoise (Robin) makes...
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Marcel
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1952
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Yves Allegret's Les Miracle N'Ont Lieu qu Une Fois was briefly released in the U.S. under the literally translated title...
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Jerome
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1951
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Remy
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1950
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Cinematic poet Jean Cocteau explored the myth of Orpheus on no fewer than three occasions: Le Sang d'Un Poete...
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Orpheus
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1950
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Michel
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1949
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Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Ruy Blas was adapted for the screen by no less than Jean Cocteau. The title character,...
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Ruy Blas
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1948
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Pauline Kael has characterized Jean Cocteau's The Eagle with Two Heads (L'aigle a deux tetes) as an inversion of Cocteau's...
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Stanislas
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1948
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Jacques
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1948
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The tragic 19th-century romance between Austria's Crown Prince Rudolph and his teenaged mistress Marie Varetska served as the...
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Crown Prince Rudolph
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1948
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Les Chouans is set during the dark days of the French Revolution. The title translates as "The Royalists," and indeed the...
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1946
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No "story by" credit is bestowed in the 1942 French filmization of Carmen, though its debt to novelist Prosper Merimee and...
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Don Jose
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1946
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Jean Cocteau's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast (originally released in France as La Belle et la Bête) stars Josette Day as...
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The Beast/ Avenant
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1946
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Eternal Return (L'Eternel Retour) translates the Tristan and Isolde legend into contemporary (e.g. 1939) terms. The Tristan...
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Patrice
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1943
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1943
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1942
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1941
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1936
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