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The Children Thief

The Children Thief

IMDB:

4.5
The Children Thief

Released

9/25/1991

Duration

1h 50m

Genre

Drama

Country

France

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni, Ángela Molina, Michel Piccoli

Overview

Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they were his own. As would never be the case in real life today, in this fantasized story set in 1925, no one objects to this behavior, and they live pleasantly and enjoyably together. Things grow considerably more animated when a stage magician places his very attractive daughter in the colonel's household, which stirs a lively romantic interest from his boys and from the great man himself.

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni

Bigua

Marcello Mastroianni

Ángela Molina

Desposoria

Ángela Molina

Michel Piccoli

Mr. Armand

Michel Piccoli

Virginie Ledoyen

Gabrielle

Virginie Ledoyen

Loïc Even

Joseph

Loïc Even

Nada Strancar

Rose

Nada Strancar

Cécile Pallas

Antoine's mother

Cécile Pallas

Gabriele Tinti

L'argentin 1

Gabriele Tinti

Mathieu Bisson

Simon

Mathieu Bisson