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La peau de l'ours (1957)

La peau de l'ours poster
Original title
La Peau de l'ours
Directed by
Claude Boissol
Genre
crime comedy film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 19m
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A police commissioner lives at home with his family. He finds out he has been poisoned with arsenic and must figure out which family member is the culprit.

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What happens

La Peau de l'ours est un film français réalisé par Claude Boissol, sorti en 1957. Un commissaire de police (interprété par Jean Richard) vit entouré de ses deux enfants (interprétés par Jacques Perrin et Sophie Daumier), de son épouse (Nicole Courcel), de sa belle-mère et de sa bonne. Mais il découvre qu'il a été empoisonné à l'arsenic, et que le coupable est forcément l'un de ses proches. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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