Return to Paradise

Return to Paradise

1935 · 105 min · ★ 10.0 · Comedy, Drama

Trying to acclimatize a group of overworked city dwellers from very different backgrounds to the open air and work in the fields, such is the unusual challenge that an original practitioner, the curious doctor Bouvard, is attempting. The trial, which involves many risks, gives unexpected but not disappointing results.

Directed by Serge de Poligny

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