The Last Melodrama (1977)
Director: Georges Franju
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Nostalgic, ironic, with flashes of what-might-have-been, this film (made for TV from a story by Pierre Brasseur) by master of melodrama Georges Franju is really a prolonged disappointment. Dealing with a touring theatre group in a provincial French town, it's a lament for the passing of an era of entertainment, and the human emotions it evoked. DMacp.Author: DMacp
Cast & crew
Director: Georges Franju
Producer: Céline Baruch
Cast: Michel Vitold, Raymond Bussières, Edith Scob, Juliette Mills, Luis Masson, Georges Koulouris George Colouris full cast
Duration: 80 mins
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