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The Pleasure Pit (1969)

The Pleasure Pit poster
Original title
Les Chemins de Katmandou
Directed by
André Cayatte
Genre
drama film
Country
France, Italy
Runtime
1h 40m
Rating
4.9 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man gets caught up in a dangerous drug smuggling operation in Kathmandu. He becomes tangled with a group of expatriates and criminals, leading to a downward spiral of violence and moral compromise.

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What happens

The Pleasure Pit (French: Les Chemins de Katmandou, Italian: Katmandu, also known as Dirty Dolls in Kathmandu, The Road to Katmandu and Ways of Katmandu) is a 1969 French-Italian crime-drama film written and directed by André Cayatte. The screenplay for the film was written by René Barjavel, who later adapted it into a novel titled Les Chemins de Katmandou. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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