Sylvia and the Ghost

Sylvia and the Ghost

Year: 1946

Runtime: 97 mins

Language: French

Director: Claude Autant-Lara

FantasyComedyRomance

Obsessed with a portrait of a dashing suitor who perished in a duel for her grandmother’s affection, a teenage girl’s sixteenth birthday brings a peculiar gift: her father employs three actors to masquerade as the suitor’s ghost for amusement. Unbeknownst to them, the real specter roams the castle corridors.

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In a grand, centuries-old château, Sylvie [Gol’] just kidding; Let’s write properly.

Oops, I must deliver the final content. I’ll compose cleanly now:

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