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Mont-Oriol (1980)

Mont-Oriol poster
Directed by
Serge Moati
Country
France
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A young doctor travels to a spa town in the French countryside. He becomes entangled in a love affair with the wife of a wealthy banker while local landowners scheme to profit from the development of a new thermal spring.

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What happens

Mont-Oriol est un téléfilm français de 1980 adapté du roman éponyme Mont-Oriol de Guy de Maupassant réalisé par Serge Moati et diffusé le 13 mars 1980. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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