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Paul Guth

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Paul Guth

Born March 5, 1910 · Ossun, Hautes-Pyrénées, France

Died October 29, 1997 · aged 87

Paul Guth (5 March 1910 – 29 October 1997) was a French humorist, journalist and writer, and the President of the Académie des provinces françaises. A novelist, essayist, columnist, memoirist, historian, pamphleteer, he distinguished himself in every genre with a combination of sensitivity and savagery. He wrote about fifty works on various subjects, ranging from straight history to personal anec…

Known For

The Man Who Returns from AfarThe Man Who Returns from Afar · 1950
The Man Who Returns from Afar
★ 9.01950
MovieCrimeDrama
A man, after a fight, believes he has killed his cousin, and hides the body. The dead man had only passed out, but when he regained consciousness, he became amnesiac. When she sees him again, the woman who loved him takes him for a ghost.
Le Naïf amoureuxLe Naïf amoureux · 1965
Le Naïf amoureux
★ 7.01965
MovieComedyRomance
Paul is an accomplished teacher at Janson-de-Sailly. A "good guy" who, having returned for the holidays to the provincial town where he was raised, finds Véronique, his childhood friend. He falls madly in love...
The Innocent with Forty ChildrenThe Innocent with Forty Children · 1957
The Innocent with Forty Children
★ 6.01957
MovieComedy
Jean-François Robignac, a teacher, arrives at a provincial college to teach literature to ninth-graders. He quickly wins over the children with his youthful way with words. But his parents want to have him expelled when they learn that Jean-François uses slang words to rejuvenate writers' texts.

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