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The Passerby (1982)

The Passerby poster
Original title
La Passante du Sans-Souci
Directed by
Jacques Rouffio
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany, France
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
12
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 42 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A woman with a hidden past revisits old traumas when she becomes involved in a political assassination. The story shifts between her present-day life in Paris and her haunting experiences in 1930s Berlin.

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What happens

The Passerby (original French title: La passante du Sans-Souci, "The Passerby of Sans-Souci") is a 1982 French-West German drama film directed by Jacques Rouffio, based on the 1936 novel on the same name by Joseph Kessel, and starring Romy Schneider and Michel Piccoli. It was Schneider's last film. It was shot at the Spandau Studios in Berlin and on location in Berlin and Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Hans Jürgen Kiebach. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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