La Matiouette ou l'Arrière-pays

La Matiouette ou l'Arrière-pays

1983•48m•5.0/10

TV Movie

Ratings

🎬TMDb

5.0/10(3)

Two brothers: one of them has become an actor and lives in Paris; he goes back home and meets his sibling who has stayed in the village where he married "la Matiouette", a local girl. The reunion is warm, but they soon discover that now they are worlds apart.little by little, the conversation becomes less friendly, less kind, and regrets, resentment resurface. Their reunion will leave them two broken men.

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Production

INA

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Jacques Nolot

Jacques Nolot

Alain Pruez

Patrick Fierry

Patrick Fierry

Jean-Claude Pruez, aka Jacky Verrière

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