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The Red Head (1925)

The Red Head poster
Original title
Poil de Carotte
Directed by
Julien Duvivier
Genre
drama film, silent film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 48m
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 17 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A neglected red-haired boy lives in a rural French household with a harsh mother and an indifferent father. The story follows his quiet struggles for acceptance and affection.

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What happens

The Red Head (French: Poil de carotte) is a 1925 French silent drama film directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Henry Krauss, Charlotte Barbier-Krauss and André Heuzé. Duvivier remade it as a sound film of the same name in 1932. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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