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Le Viager (1972)

Le Viager poster
Directed by
Pierre Tchernia
Genre
comedy film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 41m
Rated
14
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 139 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man makes a deal to buy an elderly woman's apartment with a life annuity, hoping she will die soon. But she keeps living, and his financial gamble slowly turns into a long-term headache.

lightheartedwittywarmplayfulcleverentertainingsatiricalold-fashioned

What happens

Le Viager is a 1972 French comedy film directed by Pierre Tchernia and starring Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru and Claude Brasseur, adapted from a script by René Goscinny, the creator of the Asterix comics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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