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Bookmark this pageGoupi Mains Rouges (1943)
Director: Jacques Becker
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From Time Out Film Guide
The French peasantry sometimes affects that traditionally 'Welsh' habit of distinguishing each owner of a widely shared name by affixing some characteristic trait to it. Thus 'Goupi the Red-Handed', a poacher and the blackest sheep of a rural family in the throes of treasure-hunting. Black, not red, is in fact the dominant tonality of this bracingly mean-spirited melodrama, whose sombre, underlit visuals give the impression that the whole film was shot during a curfew.Author: GAd
Cast & crew
Director: Jacques Becker
Cast: Fernand Ledoux, Georges Rollin, Blanchette Brunoy, Line Noro, Robert Le Vigan, Maurice Schutz full cast
Duration: 95 mins
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