Return to Life

Return to Life

1949 · 120 min · ★ 6.4 · Drama, Comedy

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.

Directed by Georges Lampin · Written by Henri-Georges Clouzot

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