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This comedy focuses on the lives and relationships between elderly thespians living in an actors’ retirement home. The home is almost bankrupt and so the actors must support themselves. The residents include a faded sex symbol, an intellectual actor who kept a great distance between himself and the audience, and a depressed thespian who tries to conceal the fact that he was only an understudy. Cast includes Louis Jouvet, Michel Simon, Madeleine Ozeray and Victor Francen. In French.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
313488
Language
French
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Foreign language films
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Retirement
Feature films → Feature films - France
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Retirement
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)