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Le Guérisseur (1953)

Le Guérisseur poster
Directed by
Yves Ciampi
Genre
drama film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 32m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

The film is about a faith healer who arrives in a small French town. His presence creates tension between those who believe in his powers and those who question them.

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What happens

Le Guérisseur (English: The Faith healer) is a French drama film from 1953, directed by Yves Ciampi and written by Jacques-Laurent Bost, starring Dieter Borsche and Jean Marais. The film was released in other countries under the titles Der Arzt und das Mädchen (Austria/Germany), De wonderdokter (Belgium), and Flickan och polisen (Sweden). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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