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The Phantom Gondola (1936)

The Phantom Gondola poster
Original title
La gondole aux chimères
Directed by
Camillo Mastrocinque, Augusto Genina
Genre
drama film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 25m
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man and a woman fall into a doomed romance set around a mysterious gondola in Venice. Their affair is shadowed by secrets from the past and the weight of their own desires.

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What happens

The Phantom Gondola (Italian: La gondola delle chimere) is a 1936 French-Italian drama film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Marcelle Chantal, Henri Rollan and Paul Bernard. The film was a co-production between the two countries shot at the Cines Studios in Rome and based on a 1926 novel by Maurice Dekobra. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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