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LastDodo number
922733
Area
DVD / Video / Blu-ray
Item title
Chez Maupassant
Original title
Collection / set
Number in collection / set
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Carrier / medium
Label / publisher
Release year item
2008
Release year of movie
2007
Director
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Playing time (min.)
180
Number of discs / tapes
2
Article number packaging
3928
Barcode / EAN / UPC packaging
8717344731027
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Language on cover
Spoken language
Language subtitles
Colour / black and white
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Miss Harriet Well-known artist Chenal plunges into the past as he shows his friends the paintings he created in his early years. At that time he traveled all over the country with his donkey under his arm. At one of the lodgings where he often stayed, he met Miss Harriet, an extremely Puritan spinster from England. This meeting would mark him for life ... Two friends Two friends, Sauvage and Morissot, meet in occupied Paris. Before the war they always saw each other on Sundays when they went fishing. But times have changed. The two wish they could relive the tranquility of those Sundays back then, if only for a day. Then Morissot manages to get a pass by using his connections. This Sunday the friends will go fishing again ... Story of a peasant girl The peasant girl Rose becomes pregnant by a seasonal worker. She hides her pregnancy from her master and after a secret delivery she hides her child in a bread cupboard. From that moment on she has to do everything she can to keep her secret. Then the master forces Rose to marry him, as a kind of covert pay rise. The girl struggles out of shame at her illegitimate child, but the master doesn't take no for an answer. After the wedding, a quiet period begins for Rose. But in time the master begins to get angry with his young wife; she still has not given him a child ... Toine An innkeeper who loves good food and drink is afflicted with a disease that forces him to stay in bed. His wife suddenly finds him completely useless. She forces him to hatch eggs in front of all his friends ...

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