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Les Patates (1969)
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Original name: Les patates
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.
Style:
historical drama, tense, melancholic, grim, period drama
Plot:
world war two, survival, starvation, nazi occupation, obsession, desperation, french countryside, character study, smuggling, village life, peasant, risk, moral dilemma, realism, social commentary, agriculture, isolation, humanism, worker, black market, moral ambiguity, hunger, community, german occupation, nazi occupied france ...
Time:
1940s
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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