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The Decoy (1935)

The Decoy poster
Original title
Le Miroir aux alouettes
Directed by
Roger Le Bon
Genre
adventure film
Country
Germany
Runtime
1h 19m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A French-language remake of a 1934 German film. It follows characters caught up in a scheme involving a decoy. The story moves at a brisk pace with dramatic turns.

old-fashionedbriskdramaticsuspensefulperiodadventurousstraightforward

What happens

The Decoy or A Mirror for Skylarks (French: Le miroir aux alouettes) is a 1935 adventure film directed by Roger Le Bon and Hans Steinhoff and starring Edwige Feuillère, Pierre Brasseur and Jessie Vihrog. It was the French-language remake of the 1934 film Decoy. The film was produced by the German company UFA in partnership with its French subsidiary ACE. The French title is a reference to a classic device used as a decoy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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