Le Million

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Le Million is a 1931 musical / comedy film directed by René Clair. The story was adapted by Clair from a play by Georges Berr and Marcel Guillemand. A debt-ridden artist has just won a lottery worth a million Dutch florins, but lost the ticket in a jacket. His rival and him race to retrace the jacket which had gone to a brigand nicknamed "Grandpa Tulip" and then subsequently a tenor singing La Bohème at the opera theater that night.
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  • 1931

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  • 83 min (50 hs )

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René Clair

René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981) born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker. He was born in Paris and grew up in the Les Halles quarter. He attended the Lycée Montaigne and the Lycée Louis-le-Grand. During World War I, he served as an ambulance driver. After the war, he started...

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