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Les Grands Moyens
19760 FR
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5.6
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★5.6TMDB · 8
ComedyCrime
Synopsis
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The sweet elderly aunt and her two nieces survive the vendetta killing of their whole family because they are out picking flowers at the time. Undaunted, the aunt, a tough old Corsican, tracks down and kills all but one of the men who wiped out her kinfolk.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Hélène Dieudonné
Aunt Basilia
Yvette Maurech
Antonia
Andrée de Beaumont
Barberine
Roger Carel
Commissaire Honoré Compana
Fernand Sardou
Camille Conségude
Catherine Rouvel
Angélina
Agnès Gattegno
Petrina
Lucette Sahuquet
Antoinette Lacagne
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Hubert Cornfield
- Languages
- French
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The take
Hubert Cornfield directs. Dialogue in French.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 150 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 3Hélène Dieudonné and Yvette Maurech and Andrée de Beaumont carry the top of the cast.
- 4IMDB entry: tt0073066 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 5Only 8 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
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- Status
- Released
- Original language
- FR
Also by
Hubert Cornfield
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1977-08-19· DDR
- TV1993-01-13· ZDF
- TV1978-11-11· DFF1 (DDR)
Also known as
International titles
- Alte Damen morden gründlichDE
- Short and SweetGB
- Les grands moyensFR
