They Were Five

Year: 1936

Runtime: 101 mins

Language: French

Director: Julien Duvivier

Drama

Five unemployed friends each win a share of a 100,000‑franc national lottery prize. Rather than split the cash, they pool it to purchase a dilapidated building and transform it into an open‑air café. As the business gets underway, personal ambitions, debts and mistrust begin to test their solidarity, threatening to tear the group apart.

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