Pierre Clémenti
Pierre Clémenti (28 September 1942 – 27 December 1999) was a French actor.
Born in Paris, Clémenti studied drama and began his acting career in the theatre. He secured his first minor screen roles in 1960 in Yves Allégret's Chien de pique performing alongside Eddie Constantine. Arguably, his most famous role was that of gangster lover of bourgeois prostitute Catherine Deneuve in Belle de jour, the 1967 classic by Luis Buñuel, in whose film La voie lactée he played the Devil. He appeared in several highly regarded films of the period, working with many of Europe's best known directors, including Luchino Visconti (The Leopard), Pier Paolo Pasolini (Pigsty) and Bernardo Bertolucci (The Conformist and Partner). Other directors he has worked with are Liliana Cavani, Glauber Rocha, Miklós Jancsó and Philippe Garrel.
In 1972, his career was derailed after he was sentenced to prison for allegedly possessing or using drugs. Due to insufficient evidence, Clémenti was released after 17 months; later he penned a book about his time in prison. After his release he played the role of ever-optimistic sailor of the Potemkin in Dusan Makavejev's scandalous movie Sweet movie, and the role of the seductive saxophone player Pablo in Fred Haines's film adaptation of Herman Hesse's novel Steppenwolf. Throughout his career, he continued to be active on-stage.
He was also involved with the French underground film movement, directing several of his own films, which often featured fellow underground filmmakers and actors. Visa de censure no X was an experimental work made up of two of films. New Old was a feature length work released in 1978 in which Viva appeared. La Revolution ce ne'est qu'un debut, continuons le combat, followed by In the shadow of the blue rascal and Sun. He died of liver cancer in 1999
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.729 |
| Birthday | 1942-09-28 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As |
1967
Belle de Jour
7.4/848
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her...
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Belle de Jour
1974
Sweet Movie
5.3/120
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
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Sweet Movie
1990
The Austrian
6/2
A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinet...
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The Austrian
1970
The Conformist
7.673/630
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
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The Conformist
1978
Little Lips
5.4/24
A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his gen...
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Little Lips
1969
The Milky Way
7.072/153
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some trucu...
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The Milky Way
1968
Partner
6.036/28
The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.
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Partner
1990
Hard to Be a God
6.2/38
Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble d...
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Hard to Be a God
1981
Quartet
5.8/29
When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
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Quartet
1979
Zoo zéro
5/9
Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to re...
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Zoo zéro
1969
Pigsty
7.068/147
Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In...
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Pigsty
1981
The Brunette and Me
5.4/8
A rich business man falls for a young girl and vows to fulfill her dream of becoming a punk rock star.
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The Brunette and Me
1974
Steppenwolf
6/22
In the bourgeois circles of Europe after the Great War, can anything save the modern man? Harry Haller, a solitary intellectual, has all his life fear...
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Steppenwolf
1976
L'Affiche rouge
6.9/6
A company wants to make a play about Mont Valerien resistant fighters who were shot by the Nazis and the French collaborators.
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L'Affiche rouge
1982
Le Pont du Nord
6.9/33
Marie is just out from prison when she runs into Baptiste, a young paranoid needing companionship. In their pursuit of a mysterious briefcase carried...
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Le Pont du Nord
1968
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
6.1/29
Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced...
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The Diary of an Innocent Boy
1969
The Virgin's Bed
5.7/15
30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His cl...
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The Virgin's Bed
1980
Stridura
4/1
In a desolated world, a martyr is steered by a man giving orders from a control room. His henchmen torture the resistance fighter. Are the parts playe...
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Stridura
1970
Necropolis
4.5/12
Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignom...
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Necropolis
1965
Enchanted Isles
6.7/6
A French sailor circa 1850, disembarks in a desert Atlantic island, and discovers a woman who had survived for many years her father and brother, dead...
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Enchanted Isles
1986
In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal
7.6/7
300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—a city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang and the government hides the dead....
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In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal
1970
Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move
5/12
Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy...
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Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move
1970
The Year of the Cannibals
5.5/24
On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law...
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The Year of the Cannibals
1970
Cutting Heads
4.286/7
In a castle, somewhere in the Thirld World, Diaz is delirious, dreaming of the power he had in Eldorado, while oppressing the indians, workers and pea...
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Cutting Heads
1968
Wheel of Ashes
8/9
A stripped-down account of a young man's existential reckoning. "As dust hides a mirror, lust hides the self," reads one of the film's Vedanta-sourced...
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Wheel of Ashes
1965
How Not to Rob a Department Store
1/1
Bandits see the fruits of their theft fall into the hands of black jackets.
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How Not to Rob a Department Store
1968
Un film porno
4.8/6
After having spent a year in Warhol's Factory, painter Olivier Mosset returned to Paris with an appetite for film and began hosting Super 8 nights in...
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Un film porno
1968
The Idols
5.7/3
This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia, mani...
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The Idols
1970
The Pacifist
4.8/11
Barbara is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an unpleasant start of battery and stalking, with Pierre Cl...
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The Pacifist
1985
Forty-four, or Bedtime Stories
0/0
Directed by Moumen Smihi.
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Forty-four, or Bedtime Stories
1972
The Inner Scar
6.581/31
A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.
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The Inner Scar
1968
Listen, Let's Make Love
4/3
When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful a...
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Listen, Let's Make Love
1968
Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge'
8.1/7
An experimental and poetic portrait of a woman.
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Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge'
1998
Hideous Kinky
6.1/84
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and prec...
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Hideous Kinky
1980
Nightmare
5.8/4
A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a hidden talent when she goes into a bar, plays magnific...
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Nightmare
1991
Massacres
0/0
A European man sets up a business in Korea to deal in snuff films. The police quickly catch on to his dealings and attempt to hunt him down.
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Massacres
1983
Exposed
4.8/14
Wisconsin farm girl Elizabeth Carlson leaves family and her English teacher lover behind and escapes to New York. There she soon makes a career for he...
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Exposed
1966
Brigade Anti Gangs
6.2/4
The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers - Raymond Pellegrin - and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long.
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Brigade Anti Gangs
1967
Shock Troops
6.7/37
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is s...
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Shock Troops
1967
Lamiel
4.2/4
Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees...
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Lamiel
1984
Clash
3.6/9
A woman revisits long-suppressed nightmares as she is being chased through an abandoned warehouse by a strange man.
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Clash
1983
Doctor Lerne, Subgod
1/1
A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plants and even machines ...
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Doctor Lerne, Subgod
1997
The Hips of J.W.
4.4/5
Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritu...
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The Hips of J.W.
1969
His Day of Glory
4.2/4
A Brechtian thriller about an intellectual's transformation into a street-fighting man. Features a prologue featuring unused footage from Bertolucci's...
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His Day of Glory
1976
Visa de censure n° X
6.8/11
Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the architect behind a transgressive, high-minded, and...
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Visa de censure n° X
1981
The Fall of the House of Usher
6/1
After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick a...
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The Fall of the House of Usher
1982
La vraie histoire de Gérard Lechômeur
5.5/2
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La vraie histoire de Gérard Lechômeur
1982
Chassé-croisé
2/4
Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.
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Chassé-croisé
1963
The Leopard
7.7/771
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes un...
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The Leopard
1974
The Irony of Chance
5.4/5
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The Irony of Chance
1967
Homeo
5.8/4
Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All m...
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Homeo
1968
Chromo sud
6.7/3
One of the very few films made by Etienne O'Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground circa 1968 and can be very loosely designated 'dia...
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Chromo sud
1979
New Old
6.2/8
"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes, s...
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New Old
1988
The Sun
6/4
Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.
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The Sun
2008
La deuxième femme
0/0
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see...
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La deuxième femme
1981
Paris s'en va
5.5/2
Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s'en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He works with the same actors and the same technical tea...
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Paris s'en va
1982
L'amour des femmes
5/3
Although there are women in the lives of the three main protagonists -- a middle-aged architect, his construction designer, and a journalist -- the wo...
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L'amour des femmes
1983
Edith's Diary
5/3
When Edith Howland's husband abandons her for a younger woman, leaving her with their alcoholic son and his senile uncle, she begins recording details...
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Edith's Diary
1983
Brückenschläge
0/0
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Brückenschläge
1984
Dog Day
5.2/48
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.
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Dog Day
1970
Renaissance
8/1
A year and a half after "Le Lit e la vierge", Zouzou and Pierre Clémenti are in another bed, this time in front of a window, with Sacré-Coeur in the b...
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Renaissance
1977
The Son of Amir Is Dead
5.7/3
Pierre, a young man of Brussels, has lost his job. Unbeknowst to Barbara, the woman he lives with, he has become a pickpocket to survive. He works in...
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The Son of Amir Is Dead
1977
The Sorceror's Apprentice
6/1
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than act...
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The Sorceror's Apprentice
1978
The Song of Roland
5.2/4
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a k...
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The Song of Roland
1971
La famille
0/0
A film by Yvan Lagrange.
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La famille
1960
Les frangines
0/0
The owner of a suburban boarding school is found murdered. The culprit will be unmasked thanks to the ingenuity and courage of the good Janine and a s...
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Les frangines
1972
Crush Proof
4.8/4
A young man recalls his affair with a young French woman who traveled with him across the United States. They began to drift apart during the trip, an...
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Crush Proof
1977
Autoportrait d’un schizophrène
0/0
A document of the mental universe of a schizophrenic. Starring Pierre Clémenti.
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Autoportrait d’un schizophrène
1971
Jupiter
0/0
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Jupiter
1989
The Silent Woman
0/0
French thriller written by Jean-Claude Carriere.
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The Silent Woman
1967
Heads and Tales
0/0
Directed by a friend of Étienne O'Leary, this film missive, whose words are images, was held in very high esteem by Pierre Clémenti.
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Heads and Tales
1971
The Designated Victim
6.3/21
Stefano Augenti, an ambitious advertising executive, meets a curious hippie named Count Mateo Tiepolo and they form a strange bond. Seeking an escape...
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The Designated Victim
1968
Book of Saints of Eternal Rome
0/0
A (temporary) leave of many friends who are my truest world, with the attempt of getting them together in an ideal summary conceived to support me dur...
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Book of Saints of Eternal Rome
1966
The Man Who Laughs
5.4/5
Spectacular adventures of twin brothers, one with a scar which gives him a permanent smile, and their meetings with the Borgias.
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The Man Who Laughs
1966
Pop Age
0/0
Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press clippings, questions about the impact of fashion (l...
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Pop Age
2008
Souvenirs souvenirs
0/0
Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life.
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Souvenirs souvenirs
2008
Positano
6/1
Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the i...
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Positano
1960
Jack of Spades
0/0
After an adventurous life, Patrick has settled in the Camargue and bought a manade where he raises bulls, while the "riziers" gradually invade and tra...
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Jack of Spades
1992
Attendre le navire
0/0
The journey on the edge of an ocean of a poet, two terrorists, a film-maker, a reporter and two lovers, in search of a ship leaving for Nowhere. A shi...
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Attendre le navire
1984
Rapt ou la Separation des races
7/1
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Rapt ou la Separation des races
1962
Adorable menteuse
5.111/9
Juliette is a young woman who just can't help lying. She lies to her sister, Sophie, to Sophie's fiancé Martin, and to all the men she attracts with h...
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Adorable menteuse
1974
De quoi s'agit-il?
0/0
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De quoi s'agit-il?
1968
Pop' game
8/1
Poupée and her (so-called) brother Paulo share an apartment in Paris. They dream of becoming actors. In the meantime, life goes on, nothing happens, u...
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Pop' game
2021
Les Jours et les Nuits
0/0
I give a methodical account of my film work: the creation of new series (Lire, Trio, Avec Mariola), the shooting of a new feature film (Amours décolor...
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Les Jours et les Nuits
1990
Russian adventure. Peter Fleischmann is filming "It's not easy to be a god."
0/0
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Russian adventure. Peter Fleischmann is filming "It's not easy to be a god."
1984
Le Chant de Noël
0/0
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his li...
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Le Chant de Noël
1965
Les Bargasses
0/0
A film by Marc'o
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