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Release, runtime and language
1947 · 105 mins · French
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Directed by
Jean Delannoy
Starring
André Carnège, Frédéric Mariotti, Micheline Presle, Howard Vernon, Robert Dalban, Danièle Delorme

A fantasy film adapted from a screenplay by French existentialist Jean‑Paul Sartre, it follows a society heiress and a resistance fighter who are killed at the same instant. In the afterlife they meet and are given a single test: if they can prove their love is true they may return to the living world, but failure condemns them to wander the earth as restless ghosts.

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