Christian Clavier
Christian Clavier is a French actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director. He is the brother of French film director Stéphane Clavier.
After his high class studies at the Neuilly Lycée Pasteur—though asserted here and there, he never studied at Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) —he started his actor career with the comedic theater troupe Splendid, which had hits with films like Les Bronzés font du ski and Le Père Noël est une ordure.
His most notable success without the Splendid group, and by far his biggest hit to date, was in the 1993 film les Visiteurs, where he played a character known as Jacquouille la fripouille; the character's cry of "Okkkayyy!!" became a popular exclamation after the movie's success.
After les Visiteurs he was a certified star, participating in big-budget films like Astérix et Obélix contre César, Astérix & Obélix: Mission Cléopâtre, and the sequel and remake of Visiteurs. He also played several dramatic roles on television, including M. Thénardier in Les Misérables (2000 television version) and Napoléon in a biographical television film.
Clavier has played in notable duos with: Jean Reno in les Visiteurs (the Visitors) and the US remake, Just Visiting, L'Opération Corned-Beef and L'Enquête corse (The Corsican investigation). Gérard Depardieu in Astérix et Obélix (Asterix and Obelix) and Les anges gardiens. He also runs a production company, Ouille Production.
He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Ordre national du Mérite on 13 June 1998, and promoted Officier (Officer) in 2005. He was made Chevalier (Knight) of the Légion d'honneur in 2008.
He is a friend of former French président Nicolas Sarkozy, and recently emigrated to England as a result of Francois Hollande's punitive tax policy, mirrored in his Astérix co-star Gérard Depardieu's self-imposed exile to Belgium.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.3128 |
| Birthday | 1952-05-06 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | Christian Jean-Marie Clavier, |
1998
The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
6.029/1089
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the presen...
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The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
1977
This Sweet Sickness
6.597/31
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2002
Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
7.366/3839
History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.
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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
1978
French Fried Vacation
6.594/961
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French Fried Vacation
2006
French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
4.083/756
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.
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1993
The Visitors
7.125/2097
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2006
L'Entente cordiale
4.806/54
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L'Entente cordiale
2005
Les Visiteurs revisités
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1999
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
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Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
1979
French Fried Vacation 2
7.341/1284
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2007
The Price to Pay
5.412/139
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1991
L'Opération Corned Beef
6.19/276
The unsanctioned efforts of a covert unit to gather evidence about illegal arms shipments with the unwitting help of an embassy employee.
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L'Opération Corned Beef
2007
The Red Inn
5.492/126
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1982
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
7.322/1079
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1973
The Year 01
6.543/46
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1978
Like a Turtle on Its Back
4.357/7
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2004
The Corsican File
5.9/408
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1983
Gramps Is in the Resistance
6.852/453
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
2005
The Antidote
5.1/119
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The Antidote
1981
Clara and the Why Notes
5.622/45
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Clara and the Why Notes
1986
Twist Again in Moscow
6.058/78
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Twist Again in Moscow
1991
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
5.3/29
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.
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The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1995
Guardian Angels
6.094/282
A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob.
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Guardian Angels
2003
Lovely Rita
3.6/12
Edgar Lamarck - an accountant and auditor is coming to the the shipyard on Cote d'Azur in order to check the statements. After completing his mission,...
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Lovely Rita
1993
The Thirst for Gold
5.5/117
Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - wa...
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1994
Revenge of a Blonde
4.579/63
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Revenge of a Blonde
2004
Albert est méchant
4.625/56
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2009
Bitter Victory
6.2/16
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Bitter Victory
1989
My Best Pals
6.255/104
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1980
Rat Race
5.4/33
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1989
Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
5.556/9
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1981
Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
5.226/73
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Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
1982
Elle voit des nains partout !
4.54/25
La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le roi deçu de n'avoir pas un fils est résolu à faire d...
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2024
Not Without My Shrink
4.874/151
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2001
Just Visiting
4.8/735
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Just Visiting
2011
You Don't Choose Your Family
5.671/199
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2008
The Imaginary Invalid
6.429/14
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Slices of Life
5.391/23
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2011
La Cage aux folles
5.2/35
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1985
Santa Claus Is a Stinker
7.403/279
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Santa Claus Is a Stinker
1989
Mieux vaut courir
7/1
Crossfire between a suspect and the police. In the middle of the case, a girl.
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Mieux vaut courir
2013
Serial Teachers
5.436/1261
With only 12 percent of its pupils obtaining their baccalaureate, Jules Ferry High School is the worst school in France. The Inspector of Schools has...
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Serial Teachers
2024
Cocorico
5.609/343
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Cocorico
1989
Double mixte
2.5/2
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Double mixte
2013
Les affaires sont les affaires
5.875/4
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2016
The Visitors: Bastille Day
4.202/731
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social u...
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The Visitors: Bastille Day
2014
Serial (Bad) Weddings
6.658/3549
A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
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Serial (Bad) Weddings
2023
L'Âge d'or de la pub
6.5/6
55 years ago, on October 1 1968, the first brand advertising spot appeared on the French television screen. Over the next three decades, thousands of...
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
1987
The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
4.367/30
On the day he loses his job in advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs trafficking...
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The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
2023
Mr. Putifar's Wacky Plan
5.1/70
The tasty story of a retired teacher who decides to make his former students pay for years of heckling and humiliation.
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Mr. Putifar's Wacky Plan
2014
The Secret of Arkandias
5.225/111
Theo, not the most popular boy at his school, dreams of escaping the dreary everyday life, experiencing adventure and accomplishing great heroic deeds...
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The Secret of Arkandias
2013
Le Bœuf clandestin
3.8/5
Mr. Berthaud, a wealthy bourgeois, manages a bank. To get a promotion, he wants to curry favor with his manager. So, he imitates him. At first, his da...
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Le Bœuf clandestin
2014
Do Not Disturb
5.291/381
Michel, who's crazy about jazz, has just found a rare album that he dreams of quietly listening to in his living room. But the world seems to have con...
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Do Not Disturb
1975
The Restroom Robbery
6.412/74
Max and Riton, 2 thieves make plan to steal money in a train station office. They will operate through the wall in the public toilets.
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The Restroom Robbery
Le Chat du rabbin
0/0
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Le Chat du rabbin
2015
Babysitting 2
6.329/1429
Franck and his girlfriend Sonya, plus some of their friends go on holiday in Brazil. Franck, his friends, two girls and Sonya's grandmother leave to v...
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2025
The Rookie Guide
4.619/80
Yann can’t find a job he likes or can keep, and dreams of a better life. One day he learns that the famous travel guide Le Routard pays its employees...
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The Rookie Guide
1977
The Devil in the Box
6/3
Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but decided to put up a fight by continuing to occupy...
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The Devil in the Box
1996
Panique au Plazza
6.1/5
During a long night session at the parliament a deputy sneaks to meet his mistress in a nearby hotel.
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Panique au Plazza
2025
Million Dollar Madness
5.5/31
Under immense pressure and amidst competition with a duplicitous colleague, Stan, the ambitious and very serious operations manager of a construction...
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Million Dollar Madness
1974
Bonne présentation exigée
5/2
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Bonne présentation exigée
2017
A Bag of Marbles
7.794/910
At the beginning of the 1940s, in a France occupied by Nazi forces, lived the Jewish Joffo family. Happy and tight-knit, she sees her future darken wh...
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A Bag of Marbles
2025
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)
6/127
After reclaiming Kaamelott from Lancelot's tyrannical rule, Arthur spares his life, defying Celtic gods. Knights must prove themselves for Table Round...
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Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I)
2017
With Open Arms
5.237/494
Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the fam...
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With Open Arms
2017
If I Were a Boy
5.336/400
Jeanne wakes up one morning and her life is about to take a funny turn, at first sight nothing has changed in her - to a small detail.
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If I Were a Boy
2018
Spirou & Fantasio's Big Adventures
4.5/134
When Spirou, supposedly a bellhop in a Palace, meets Fantasio, reporter scupper, everything starts very hard … and rather badly!
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Spirou & Fantasio's Big Adventures
Cédric
0/0
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Cédric
2017
Finding Momo
5.208/270
One evening, when they come home, Mr. and Mrs. Prioux are astounded to find that a certain Patrick has moved into their place. This strange young man...
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Finding Momo
1994
Dead Tired
6/125
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fa...
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Dead Tired
1991
Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
5/2
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Les gens ne sont pas forcément ignobles
1997
Les Sœurs Soleil
3.587/23
This gently satirical French comedy centers on the resulting brouhaha that erupts when the preadolescent daughter of a very conservative bourgeoisie c...
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Les Sœurs Soleil
1989
Fantôme sur l'oreiller
4.8/5
A man is about to buy a castle from his wife, who has secretly decided to leave him. He discovers belatedly that the building is haunted.
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Fantôme sur l'oreiller
1976
The Bottom Line
5.555/55
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine...
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The Bottom Line
1989
Un fil à la patte
6.5/1
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Un fil à la patte
1986
L'Été 36
4/3
In 1936, the life of the inhabitants of a Breton manor is disturbed by the arrival of workers on vacation.
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L'Été 36
2019
Serial (Bad) Weddings 2
5.893/1328
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various...
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Serial (Bad) Weddings 2
1979
Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
5.3/27
Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...
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Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
2018
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
6.846/1343
Following a fall during mistletoe picking, Druid Getafix decides that it is time to secure the future of the village. Accompanied by Asterix and Obeli...
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Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
2019
Ibiza
5.226/348
A mature podiatrist, his girlfriend and her teenage children travel Ibiza to live a crazy holidays.
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Ibiza
2009
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
6.375/4
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
2019
Wide Load
4.155/116
This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary...
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Wide Load
2014
Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid
6.2/4
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Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid
1975
Un bol d'air
5.667/3
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Un bol d'air
1976
Let's Make a Dirty Movie
3.917/12
A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie.
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Let's Make a Dirty Movie
1980
Cocktail Molotov
6/14
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Cocktail Molotov
2021
Qu'est-ce qu'ils ont fait au bon Dieu ?
6/3
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Qu'est-ce qu'ils ont fait au bon Dieu ?
2019
Meet the Malawas
4.461/194
A news anchor, a comedian, an actress, and a soccer player with big egos have to travel across the globe to meet the Malawa tribe for a TV show.
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2021
Kaamelott: The First Chapter
6.6/766
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2021
Christmas with the Tuches
5.099/282
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1976
F as in Fairbanks
6.444/18
André Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father, returns home from military service. He meets and falls...
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F as in Fairbanks
2021
Serial (Bad) Weddings 3
6.306/431
Claude and Marie Verneuil will soon be celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. For the occasion, their four daughters - Isabelle, Odile, Ségolène...
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1977
You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
4.903/67
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You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
2022
Employee of the Month
6.019/288
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Employee of the Month
1975
Let Joy Reign Supreme
6.429/85
A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
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2011
Il était une fois... « Le père Noël est une ordure »
6.5/4
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2021
Do You Do You Saint-Tropez
5.022/207
Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France....
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Do You Do You Saint-Tropez
2002
A Day in the Life of French Cinema
7/1
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2026
Cocorico 2
5.3/49
DNA tests before Alice and François's wedding reveal their fathers - an aristocrat and car dealer - aren't as French as they thought.
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1983
Rock and Torah
6.5/2
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2002
How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
7.421/19
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2027
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part II)
0/0
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2026
Avis de tempête
0/0
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2026
Asterix: The Kingdom of Nubia
0/0
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1977
Spoiled Children
6.2/20
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Christian Clavier: La Vis Comica
5.625/4
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Serial Teachers 3
0/0
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1974
The Suspects
5.421/19
In the south of France, the body of a 22-year-old American tourist, Candice Strasberg, is discovered in the middle of the scrubland. Two days of rain...
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