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DramaCrimeRomancejealousyparis, francemale friendshipdeath sentenceguillotinefemme fatalebeautiful womancarpenterfrench noircriminal gangdance hall19th century
A tragic French noir romance set in Belle Époque Paris, where a reformed carpenter's doomed love for a femme fatale entangles him in a criminal underworld leading inexorably toward death.
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
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