Georges Douking

Georges Douking

Born: August 6, 1902
Died: October 20, 1987
in Paris, France
Georges Douking (born Georges Ladoubée; 6 August 1902 – 20 October 1987) was a French stage, film, and television actor. He also directed stage plays such as the premier presentation of Jean Giraudoux's Sodom and Gomorrah at the Théâtre Hébertot in 1943. He is perhaps best known for his role in the surreal 1972 comedy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. He was one of the favorite actors of the French filmmaker Pierre Chenal.

Douking appeared in more than 75 films between 1934 and 1981.

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The Conquistadores
Title: The Conquistadores
Released: March 10, 1976
Type: Movie
A young couple: Victor is a musician, Claire is a secretary in a publishing house. Their daily life seems so disappointing, so monotonous, that they begin to spend their time daydreaming, both creating their own imaginary world. At the office, she writes the story of an heroine's imaginary life. He collects material to compose an opera which glorifies the conquistadors.
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Rookies Go to War
Title: Rookies Go to War
Character: Le papé
Released: November 11, 1974
Type: Movie
A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spirals out of control.
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Title: Un curé de choc
Character: Le paysan
Released: July 22, 1974
Type: TV
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Title: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Character: Gärtner
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: Movie
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
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The Right to Love
Title: The Right to Love
Character: Prisoner
Released: August 15, 1972
Type: Movie
The tragedy of Helene and her husband Pierre, whose life is shattered when Pierre is kept as a political prisoner, while Helene is denied the right to visit him. A growing fear of losing her husband to tuberculosis takes over Helene, who does all she can to meet him, even for one last time.
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Title: La Demoiselle d'Avignon
Character: M. Cornelius
Released: January 8, 1972
Type: TV
Koba is a princess, a real one. To meet up the men she loves, she finds herself in Paris... François is a diplomat. He thinks he loves a student. Little does he know that his Cinderella wears a crown. To find her again he becomes ambassador of France in her country: Kurland...
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La Grande Maffia
Title: La Grande Maffia
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: Movie
After receiving a mobster's heart as a transplant, a modest bank teller embarks on a life of criminal exploits.
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Sortie de secours
Title: Sortie de secours
Released: September 30, 1970
Type: Movie
A failed actress sinks into neurosis and mythomania. To give relief to her dismal existence, she engages in all kinds of activities ranging from false testimony to occasional prostitution.
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Potatoes
Title: Potatoes
Released: November 22, 1969
Type: Movie
In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.
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The Christmas Tree
Title: The Christmas Tree
Character: Pet owner
Released: September 25, 1969
Type: Movie
A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every wish.
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Catherine
Title: Catherine
Released: August 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Paris, 1418. The city is occupied by the Armagnacs, besieged by Philip of Burgundy. Caboche, a butcher's guild member and supporter of the Burgundians, wants to marry a young woman. To do so, he denounces his father, who is soon after murdered. The Grand Conétable of Burgundy also has his eye on Catherine, but will not be able to take her because Duke Philippe has fallen in love with her.
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The Milky Way
Title: The Milky Way
Character: Le berger avec la chèvre
Released: February 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
Title: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Character: Marshall At. Arnaud
Released: April 10, 1968
Type: Movie
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
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Lagardère
Title: Lagardère
Character: Marquis de Caylus
Released: April 4, 1968
Type: Movie
A young man, Lagardère, discovers that a plot is afoot to assassinate the Duke of Nevers. He warns him and flees with his daughter, Aurore. Fifteen years pass. Lagardère has raised Aurore as his own, but her mother seeks her out and has her abducted by her men. With the help of two friends, Lagardère rescues the girl and confronts her kidnappers.
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The Golem
Title: The Golem
Character: Zwarck
Released: February 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Athanase Pernath is a gem cutter in the Prague ghetto. In spite of himself, he becomes embroiled in the lives of his neighbors. Family feuds, swindles, jealousies and revenge lead Pernath to prison, while the threat of the Golem, a monster created by a rabbi and awakening every thirty-three years, hangs over the city.
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Triple Cross
Title: Triple Cross
Character: Polish Interrogator
Released: December 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
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Mademoiselle
Title: Mademoiselle
Character: The Priest
Released: June 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.
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Joy House
Title: Joy House
Character: Clochard
Released: June 12, 1964
Type: Movie
A small-time con man on the run from the gangster-husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women, where he finds himself trapped in deception between the two women.
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Jack of Spades
Title: Jack of Spades
Character: The old Manuel
Released: December 21, 1960
Type: Movie
After an adventurous life, Patrick has settled in the Camargue and bought a manade where he raises bulls, while the "riziers" gradually invade and transform the land. On the very day the bulls are being branded, Patrick sees Robert, a long-lost comrade just out of prison. He takes him in and asks for nothing, despite the general hostility. In fact, Robert begins by poaching young Paco, son of the gardian-chef, by offering to rob a bank; then he covets his friend's almost-fiancée, Zeffa; finally, he organizes a devastating expedition against the rice farmers, in short, he behaves like a real "dog in a poke", sowing discord and brawl everywhere.
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The Hunchback of Paris
Title: The Hunchback of Paris
Character: Le marquis de Caylus
Released: November 26, 1959
Type: Movie
Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. His rival Philippe de Gonzague hates him enough to organise an attempt on him. The Duke is accompagnied by Henri de Lagardère when de Gonzague's henchmen altogether attack him. Lagardère cannot save his friend because the both of them are hopelessly outnumbered. He has to escape in order to save the Duke's daughter and swears revenge. Together with his old buddy Passepoil he raises the little girl in Spain. At the same time he returns frequently to France where he detects confronts his friend's murderers and puts them to the sword one by one until only their former leader is left. Finally he discovers that Philippe de Gonzague is the man for whom he is looking.
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Beast at Bay
Title: Beast at Bay
Released: June 17, 1959
Type: Movie
Melun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon, finds at her home(with her) a wounded escapee of prison. The fugitive, Daniel Morane, is a handsome boy and justifies himself crimes(murders) of which we accuse it. The young woman is allowed convince, seduce, feels sorry, and agrees to help him(it). But during their escape(mare), the doubt seizes her …
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This Desired Body
Title: This Desired Body
Character: Commissioner
Released: April 17, 1959
Type: Movie
A man falls in love with Lina , a hot girl with a racy past who creates a sensation among the workers.
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Secrets of a French Nurse
Title: Secrets of a French Nurse
Character: Bob
Released: February 19, 1958
Type: Movie
A gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back the hard way, but things don't go as well as planned. At the same time, we watch the fate of a young nurse in a hospital. Soon, the two stories meet when the gangster faces his problems.
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Sinners of Paris
Title: Sinners of Paris
Character: Le fou
Released: January 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.
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An Eye for an Eye
Title: An Eye for an Eye
Character: Le guérisseur
Released: September 13, 1957
Type: Movie
In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife’s death.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Title: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Character: A Thief
Released: December 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...
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Judgement of God
Title: Judgement of God
Character: Le moine Enrique - commissaire de l'inquisition
Released: August 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become the husband of a woman with pimples,flat feet and no breast. Nevertheless, he has to obey his authoritarian father, Duke Ernest, and accompanied by faithful Count Törring, he mounts his steed and sets out for Würtemberg. Stopping in Augsburg, he falls in love with the daughter of a local barber-surgeon, pure and beautiful Agnès Bernauer. The couple is soon secretly married and both take refuge at the castle of Margravine Josepha, Albert's aunt, waiting for Ernest's consent. Unluckily Albert's father will not accept his son's union with a commoner and Albert, supported by Josepha and an army of common people, declares war on the Duke. They seem about to be victorious when Brother Enrique, a monk formerly in the Holy Inquisition, finds a way to reverse the situation: accusing Agnès of witchcraft...
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Savage Triangle
Title: Savage Triangle
Character: Le paysan
Released: September 26, 1951
Type: Movie
Based on the novel of the same name by writer Edouard Peisson, this Jean Delannoy film display one boy’s unconditional love for his mother, despite her tragic mistreatment of him. After being raised by a shepherd for the past 12 years, Simon (Pierre-Michel Beck) is reunited with his mother Marie (Madeleine Robinson). Marie is a prostitute in Marseilles and is now stable enough to welcome Simon back into her life. Unaware of her profession at first, Simon is happy to have his mom back, but in time he learns how she makes her living. This troubles Simon but he continues to love her, despite not loving her chosen profession. His anger toward this issue gets directed toward Marie’s louse of a boyfriend, Paul (Frank Villard), and the result is a heartfelt tale about love and family.
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Lady Paname
Title: Lady Paname
Character: Le parlementaire, un ami de Fred
Released: May 26, 1950
Type: Movie
The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a talented singer, and her tumultuous love affair with Jeff the composer. A photographer nicknamed Bagnolet, a gentle anarchist, gently monitors the activities of Caprice, who has become Lady Paname and, in the absence of morality, makes love triumph.
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Maya
Title: Maya
Character: Un soultier
Released: December 9, 1949
Type: Movie
Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman -- at least for the night. When a middle-aged man named Jean insists that Bella is his long-lost sweetheart, she plays along, hoping to escape her sordid lifestyle. The emotional tragedy that follows is meant to explain how Bella became "Maya," the living embodiment of Lost Souls.
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Scandals of Clochemerle
Title: Scandals of Clochemerle
Character: Le préparateur
Released: June 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to restore order, but the military add to the confusion by getting involved with the local women.
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Adrien
Title: Adrien
Character: The painter
Released: December 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time. His latest revolutionary creation is the motorized roller skate. His problem is to be able to market them. Jules Petitpas, a jobless adman, is the right man for that.
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Secrets of a Ballerina
Title: Secrets of a Ballerina
Character: Father Biondi
Released: November 25, 1943
Type: Movie
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire that once took a macabre and sadly turn. it all began 50 years previously, when the wealthy landowner Gérard de Clergue fell madly in love with the beautiful young dancer Clara Biondi. In the course of the ensuing romance, Gérard remains blissfully ignorant of the fact that Clara had a previous lover, James de Poulay...
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Finance noire
Title: Finance noire
Released: November 24, 1943
Type: Movie
In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introduces an intelligence agent to the principality. A woman, Helene, betrays them first, then in love with Francois, the pilot, helps the two friends to escape.
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Tornavara
Title: Tornavara
Character: Gregor
Released: October 6, 1943
Type: Movie
In a lost village in Lapland, Gérard comes to the aid of his friend Anders, in conflict with his father, a rich owner of gold mines.
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Carnival of Sinners
Title: Carnival of Sinners
Character: The thief (uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1943
Type: Movie
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.
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The Phantom Wagon
Title: The Phantom Wagon
Character: Un ivrogne
Released: September 7, 1939
Type: Movie
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.
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Daybreak
Title: Daybreak
Character: L'aveugle
Released: June 9, 1939
Type: Movie
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events the led him to the killing.
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Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Title: Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Released: June 7, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A false alibi makes him innocent and he can thus continue his mission, thanks to the devotion of an Alsatian who, in enemy uniform, obscurely serves his country.
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Yamilé Under the Cedars
Title: Yamilé Under the Cedars
Character: Ahmed
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides off with him.When her Christian fiance brings her back,she is punished for her transgression.
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The Last Turning
Title: The Last Turning
Character: Un joueur
Released: May 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's offer to work for him. Of course, it is not for Nick's sake that the young man becomes his attendant, but for the love of Cora under whose spell he has fallen at once. It does not take long before Cora, who despises her husband, asks her lover to help her get rid of him. Frank is reluctant at first but ...
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Louise
Title: Louise
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1939
Type: Movie
What was it about opera diva Grace Moore that attracted the attention of filmdom's top directors? Moore's 1937 American movie vehicle When You're in Love had been directed by Josef Von Sternberg; two years later, her French starrer Louise was helmed by no less than Abel Gance, who a decade earlier had revolutionized the "historical epic" genre with the awesome Napoleon. There was, however, little that was revolutionary in this cinemadaption of Gustave Charpentier's opera. Moore plays Louise, a poor seamstress who is led astray by the rakish Julien (Georges Thill). After falling from grace (no pun intended), our heroine is rescued by her understanding father (Andre Pernet), who demonstrates his forgiveness by singing to her (it is, after all, an opera). Though it played to enthusiastic crowds in both London and Paris, Louise turned out to be Grace Moore's final film; conversely, Abel Gance continued to make commercial potboilers well into the 1970s.
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The Mayor's Dilemma
Title: The Mayor's Dilemma
Character: Brazoux
Released: March 23, 1939
Type: Movie
At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against the marriage of their children. The war changes the positions.
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Deputy Eusèbe
Title: Deputy Eusèbe
Character: Firmin
Released: March 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for election as a member of parliament. In fact Frazier, a crooked businessman, has urged an accomplice to impersonate Eusèbe, in order to obtain, through this straw man, authorizations for the creation of a casino in Sanceau-les-Nains and to make big money out of it. Eusébe decides to go to Paris to investigate. In the capital he meets Mariska, an exuberant actress who encourages him to try to get elected. As a result, thanks to her the true Bonbonneau becomes a member of parliament and the crook's accomplice is arrested. But Frazier is not impressed and, changing tactics, he starts manipulating Eusèbe.
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Katia
Title: Katia
Character: L'espion
Released: November 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again.
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Bargekeepers Daughter
Title: Bargekeepers Daughter
Character: Pausanias
Released: October 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his family was exiled from. But Chautard, a French financier, who has business there (the country is rich in oil), wouldn't mind a little political stability. So why not restore the ancient royal family to the throne? But is Prince Sacha up to his role ? And will Marianne make a suitable princess?
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The Train for Venice
Title: The Train for Venice
Character: The bartender
Released: September 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Discovering his wife's relationship with a middle-class snob, a husband tries his best to break this relationship by the seducer himself and ends up leaving with his wife for another wedding night in Venice.
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Les Gaietés de l'exposition
Title: Les Gaietés de l'exposition
Character: The second detective
Released: May 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of the 1937 Paris Exposition, a mistaken identity plot where a travel agent from Morocco is confused by the French police with a dangerous swindler.
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The Lafarge Case
Title: The Lafarge Case
Character: Parent
Released: March 8, 1938
Type: Movie
Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her husband .
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I Accuse
Title: I Accuse
Character: Soldier Rémuset
Released: January 23, 1938
Type: Movie
After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.
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The Woman at the End of the World
Title: The Woman at the End of the World
Character: Planque
Released: January 19, 1938
Type: Movie
A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.
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The Green Domino
Title: The Green Domino
Character: Hubert
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
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Street Without a Name
Title: Street Without a Name
Released: February 2, 1934
Type: Movie
The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their neighborhood will soon be demolished and a mysterious character hides himself in this street.