Return to Life
Top 10 Billed Cast
Gaston (segment "Le retour de tante Emma")
Aunt Bertha (segment "Le retour de tante Emma")
Antoine (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
Lieutenant Evelyne (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
Jean Girard (segment "Le retour de Jean")
Commander (segment "Le retour de Jean")
René (segment "Le retour de René")
Louis (segment "Le retour de Louis")
Mayor (segment "Le retour de Louis")
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Overview
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
Release Date
1949-09-14
Average
6.2
Rating:
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