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Bad Starters (1976) [N/A]

Featuring:
France Dougnac, Olivier Jallageas, Marie Dubois

Directed by:
Sébastien Japrisot


Release Date:
February 11, 1976

Original Title:
Les mal partis

Genres:
Drama

Production Countries:
France

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 114

Overview from TheMovieDB

15-year old schoolboy Denis and the nun Clotilde fall in love with each other. During the war the two of them take shelter at an abandoned farm and live happily together until the locals start to become suspicious.

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Overview from Open Movies

The impossible love between a minor young man and a nun. In 1944, in Marseille, Denis, a 14-year-old boy, finishes his 3rd year at a Jesuit college. During a visit to a patient in a hospital, he notices Sister Clotilde, a young nun who is not insensitive to her charm. Their friendship grows until the mother superior understands that it is evolving towards a feeling of love. Despite the advice of their respective entourage and imposed separation, they give in to their passion and eventually run away to spend the summer in Haute-Loire, in a property of the family of Sister Clotilde. When the Liberation arrives, the taboos and society catch up with them.

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Bad Starters (1976) on IMDb
Internet Movie Database 6.6/10

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Production

Director:
Sébastien Japrisot

Writer:
Sébastien Japrisot

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