The North Star

The North Star

Year: 1982

Runtime: 124 mins

Language: French

Director: Pierre Granier-Deferre

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Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman long in North Africa, meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to rich Egyptian Nemrod Lobetoum; Sylvie and Nemrod fall in love, provoking Edouard's jealousy. Edouard appears at Sylvie's mother Louise's boarding house, blood‑stained, after Nemrod is killed on a train. He denies involvement, Sylvie suspects him, and her mother backs him.

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