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Second Wind (1978)

Second Wind poster
Original title
Un Second Souffle
Directed by
Gérard Blain
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany, France
Runtime
1h 35m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man in his 50s leaves his wife and children to start a new life with a much younger woman. He then finds an unsettling connection between her and another man his age who survived a motorcycle accident.

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What happens

Second Wind (French: Un second souffle) is a 1978 French drama film directed by Gérard Blain, starring Robert Stack and Anicée Alvina. It tells the story of a man in his 50s who leaves his wife and children to live with a woman 30 years younger than himself, only to discover an unsettling link between the woman and a man of his age who had been in a motorcycle accident. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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