Return to Life

Return to Life

6.4IMDb Score
Released:1949-09-14
Duration:120 min
Country:France
Director:André Cayatte, Georges Lampin, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jean Dréville
Actors:Bernard Blier, Jane Marken, François Périer, Patricia Roc, Louis Jouvet
Production:Les Films Marceau, Les Productions Jacques Roitfeld

Overview:

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.

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