Return to Life

Year: 1949

Runtime: 120 mins

Language: French

Directors: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Georges Lampin

DramaComedy

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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