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This Angry Age (1957)

This Angry Age poster
Directed by
René Clément
Genre
drama film
Country
France, Italy, United States
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family struggles to build a dam on their land in coastal Indochina, fighting against the sea and poverty. The mother pushes her children to work hard, while they long for escape and independence.

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What happens

This Angry Age (Italian: La diga sul Pacifico, lit. 'The dam on the Pacific') is a 1957 drama film directed and co-written by René Clément, produced by Dino De Laurentiis, based on Marguerite Duras' 1950 novel The Sea Wall. It stars Anthony Perkins, Silvana Mangano, Richard Conte, Jo Van Fleet, and Alida Valli. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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