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Smugglers' Songs

Smugglers' Songs

2012 · 97 min · ★ 5.5 · Adventure

Early on in this engaging historical drama, a marquis (played by the singularly droll Jacques Nolot) offers a peddler a carriage ride on a remote country road. After sizing up his benefactor, the peddler fights motion sickness to deliver his sales pitch: “I have here a few objects of wonder, pious images, pamphlets against men of the cloth, newspapers from Amsterdam and London, holy cards, quills, writing paper…”

Directed by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche · Written by Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

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