Jacques Perrin

Jacques Perrin

Birthday: 1941-07-13

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Biography: Jacques Perrin was a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.

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Touch and Die
Touch and Die

Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of severa...

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Poumon Vert et Tapis Rouge
Poumon Vert et Tapis Rouge

To help Francis Hallé in his fight to save the last tropical forests, a documentary filmmaker with a...

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A Captain's Honor
A Captain's Honor

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...

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Home Sweet Home
Home Sweet Home

Jules, a rebellious septuagenarian, foments a revolt in his home ruled by quasi-military rules. He a...

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Z
Z

A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to sup...

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The Sleeping Car Murder
The Sleeping Car Murder

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destina...

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Donkey Skin
Donkey Skin

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father....

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Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and...

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Winged Migration
Winged Migration

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer hom...

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Goliath
Goliath

Patrick is a tenacious lawyer specializing in environmental law. France is a schoolteacher who becom...

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Brotherhood of the Wolf
Brotherhood of the Wolf

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the...

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The 317th Platoon
The 317th Platoon

In Laos, 1954, eight days before the french defeat in the Indochina war, the 317th platoon – four fr...

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Year of the Jellyfish
Year of the Jellyfish

Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain...

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The Young Lieutenant
The Young Lieutenant

A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide burea...

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Microcosmos
Microcosmos

A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time...

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The Truth
The Truth

As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witness...

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Sophie et le Capitaine
Sophie et le Capitaine

Unfinished movie after two weeks shooting in May 1978....

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Paroles et musique
Paroles et musique

When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds hers...

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Hell
Hell

Three sisters who share a connection to a violent childhood incident reunite for the chance to come ...

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Girl with a Suitcase
Girl with a Suitcase

Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgir...

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Trintignant by Trintignant
Trintignant by Trintignant

A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trint...

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Family Diary
Family Diary

Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that h...

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Line of Demarcation
Line of Demarcation

It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcat...

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Prima la musica, poi le parole
Prima la musica, poi le parole

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Above the Clouds
Above the Clouds

Henri Lanvern is shooting a film in Thailand. One evening, at the end of the shooting, he sees a fri...

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L'odyssée de la vie
L'odyssée de la vie

A documentary on the nine months of pregnancy, from conception to the birth of a human being, altern...

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La calda vita
La calda vita

Attractive teenager Sergia usually hangs out with her older sister and her circle of mature friends....

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Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis
Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis

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I Didn't Do It!
I Didn't Do It!

Eleven-year-old Martin is a basically good boy. Unfortunately each time he decides to give a hand th...

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Man & Wife, Cop & Crook
Man & Wife, Cop & Crook

Marion is a high-powered cop. Luc is a gentleman thief. He thinks she's a lawyer, she thinks he's in...

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Operation Leopard
Operation Leopard

In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the for...

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A Little Virtuous
A Little Virtuous

In Paris, the young photographer Ferdinand falls in love with Claire, a pickpocket. Shortly after, h...

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And Satan Calls the Turns
And Satan Calls the Turns

On a sun-kissed beach, six people linger lazily, each confident of fulfilling his or her desires bef...

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Corruption
Corruption

Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is con...

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Blanche
Blanche

Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every ma...

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Les Enfants de Lumière
Les Enfants de Lumière

This French documentary is comprised of almost 300 clips from the past 100 years of cinema Francaise...

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The World of Jacques Demy
The World of Jacques Demy

Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacq...

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Missus
Missus

Italian Made-for-TV film by Alberto Negrin....

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The Young Girls Turn 25
The Young Girls Turn 25

Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband Jacqu...

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Both Sides of the Street
Both Sides of the Street

Marie has always been somewhat independent and is considered by some to be a bit of a tomboy. Though...

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Cinéma Jacques Perrin
Cinéma Jacques Perrin

This is the story of a cinema adventurer, but also that of a free man with convictions. The entertai...

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Oh pardon ! Tu dormais...
Oh pardon ! Tu dormais...

A couple is torn apart for a whole night, evoking old age, death, memories, everyday life together, ...

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The Deep End of the Ocean
The Deep End of the Ocean

A recently retired psychologist takes on a gruesome murder case....

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The Strangler
The Strangler

Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his s...

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Cop's Honor
Cop's Honor

Cop's Honor (Parole de Flic) is a 1985 French crime movie directed by José Pinheiro and starring Ala...

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Ti voglio bene Eugenio
Ti voglio bene Eugenio

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Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem
Swallows Never Die in Jerusalem

Both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are sensitively explored in the Tunisian-French drama...

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Vanille fraise
Vanille fraise

Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner....

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Disobedience
Disobedience

Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy when the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by the Fa...

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Spray of the Days
Spray of the Days

Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually d...

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Richelieu: The Purple and the Blood
Richelieu: The Purple and the Blood

In the Kingdom of France from 1640 is the old with his body ailing Cardinal Richelieu, powerful man ...

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Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire
Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire

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Drummer-Crab
Drummer-Crab

"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff...

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Love in Ambush
Love in Ambush

An Australian woman searches for her soldier brother in Cambodia during the civil breakdown from whi...

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Green Harvest
Green Harvest

In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Sh...

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The Chorus
The Chorus

In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration....

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The Scapegoat
The Scapegoat

Il Fornaretto di Venezia (US TV title: The Scapegoat) is a 1963 Italian film directed by Duccio Tess...

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Deep Blue
Deep Blue

Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinemati...

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The Uninvited
The Uninvited

When her husband returns from his work abroad with a guest, a young girl, his wife suspects a liaiso...

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The Judge
The Judge

A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring....

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The Search
The Search

Manuel Jacques Perrin is a young man from the country who tries to make it in Madrid in this somber ...

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La Nuit des éléphants
La Nuit des éléphants

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Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory
Pierre Schoendoerffer, the Sentinel of Memory

Pierre Schoendoerffer revisits his life and career, with a strong focus on the impact that his exper...

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The Long Silence
The Long Silence

Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line ...

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Adoption
Adoption

A couple takes on a homeless teenager. The trio forms a family-like community that seems to work ext...

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La Peau de l'ours
La Peau de l'ours

A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers th...

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Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

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Le trajet de la foudre
Le trajet de la foudre

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The Years of Lost Images
The Years of Lost Images

A documentary about director Valerio Zurlini. The "lost images" of the title are the movies Zurlini ...

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L'Herbe rouge
L'Herbe rouge

Based on the eponymous novel by Boris Vian. With the help of a time machine, a man explores his past...

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Fire's Share
Fire's Share

Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partn...

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Borderline
Borderline

A police superintendent, after 25 years of a flawless professional career, is arrested by internal a...

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Shock Troops
Shock Troops

A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently t...

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Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition

The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies....

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Top Kids
Top Kids

A fun journey through the history of the automobile, this film is about a group of future computer h...

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Pablo Est Mort
Pablo Est Mort

A retired doctor, who participated in the events of May 1968, is led to reconnect with former comrad...

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Love in the Night
Love in the Night

Bourgoin uses Philippe to attract customers from another establishment to the nightclub he wants to ...

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Horizon
Horizon

Antonin is a young French soldier who returns home from World War I to recover from his wounds. When...

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Un enfant, un secret
Un enfant, un secret

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Nothing But Lies
Nothing But Lies

Frustrated with her life, a Parisian tells her philandering husband about her lover....

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The Crumblers Are Doing Well
The Crumblers Are Doing Well

In his desirable mansion, a widower wants to marry again with a twenty-year old brunette. His childr...

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Flight from Paradise
Flight from Paradise

In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashbac...

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Remi, Nobody's Boy
Remi, Nobody's Boy

At the age of 10 years, young Rémi is snatched from his adoptive mother and entrusted to the signor ...

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Almost a Man
Almost a Man

A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats fr...

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Flight of the Innocent
Flight of the Innocent

The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnap...

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Everybody's Fine
Everybody's Fine

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the...

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In nome del popolo sovrano
In nome del popolo sovrano

1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try ...

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Le Piano oublié
Le Piano oublié

Julien is eleven years old and loves music. However, his father wants his son to eventually take ove...

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Le Silence des fusils
Le Silence des fusils

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The Invincible
The Invincible

In addition to his passion for red roses, Count Henri de Verlaine adores wooing all the women he mee...

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The Desert of the Tartars
The Desert of the Tartars

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an immine...

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Special Section
Special Section

In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy governm...

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First Taste of Love
First Taste of Love

Lucien, a modest engineering student, discovers that his steady girl friend Mireille is using him to...

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Une robe noire pour un tueur
Une robe noire pour un tueur

The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has...

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Louis XI, le pouvoir fracassé
Louis XI, le pouvoir fracassé

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Kim Novak Is on the Phone
Kim Novak Is on the Phone

A heavily indebted film producer tries to get back on his feet by producing a film starring Kim Nova...

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The Big Softie
The Big Softie

A young man who lives with his aunt falls for a free-spirited German model in this uninspired drama....

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The Roaring Forties
The Roaring Forties

Julien is an electronics professional who is down on his luck when he decides to enter an internatio...

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All the Other Girls Do!
All the Other Girls Do!

The innocent love of two young students is hindered by their families. The two meet in a squalid apa...

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Montparnasse-Pondichéry
Montparnasse-Pondichéry

After raising her daughter, one would think that Julie's life was rather full. However, she recently...

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The Young Girls of Rochefort
The Young Girls of Rochefort

Delphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and Solange ...

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The American
The American

A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among ol...

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Sun in Your Eyes
Sun in Your Eyes

A love triangle between 23-year-old Emma (Anna Karina), her older boyfriend (Georges Descrières) and...

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Oceans
Oceans

An ecological drama/documentary, filmed throughout the globe. Part thriller, part meditation on the ...

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Blood of the Flamboyant Tree
Blood of the Flamboyant Tree

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Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
Françoise Dorléac, une promesse

A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac...

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Gates of the Night
Gates of the Night

In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to di...

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The Cheaters
The Cheaters

Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynic...

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Chance at Love
Chance at Love

Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love....

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Goya: A Story of Solitude
Goya: A Story of Solitude

A biography of the Spanish painter Francisco José de Goya (1746-1828), who went from being a court p...

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Manon Roland
Manon Roland

The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland....

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Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible
Alexandre Trannoy - L’Œuvre invisible

This profile of director Alexandre Trannoy is profoundly moving. But you would be forgiven for askin...

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