Poison(La Poison)
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France · 1951
1h 25m
Director Sacha Guitry
Starring Michel Simon, Jean Debucourt, Jacques Varennes, Germaine Reuver
Genre Comedy
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Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decided to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He told the lawyer that he killed his wife. The lawyer asked Paul to reconstruct the circumstances of the drama. Without knowing it, he explains, in spite of himself, the way for Paul to murder his wife by putting the odds on his side to avoid death penalty or even be released...
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