Touch and Go

Year: 1971

Runtime: 110 mins

Language: French

Director: Philippe de Broca

ComedyDrama

Set in North Africa in December 1942, the film follows Valentin, once a professional gardener whose livelihood was destroyed by the 1940 bombings. He has escaped to Tunis and now survives by smuggling stolen merchandise, ferrying the loot across the Mediterranean from Libya to Tunisia aboard a rickety, aging boat.

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