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The Children Thief (1991)

The Children Thief (1991)

Drama
Release Date: 1991, September 25
Directors: Christian de Chalonge
Countries: France
Production: Lotus Films, Dean Film, Dean Film, Gica, Gica
Cast: Gabriele Tinti, Virginie Ledoyen, Marcello Mastroianni, Ángela Molina, Michel Piccoli, Mathieu Bisson, Nada Strancar, Cécile Pallas, Loïc Even

Overview:

Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they were his own. As would never be the case in real life today, in this fantasized story set in 1925, no one objects to this behavior, and they live pleasantly and enjoyably together. Things grow considerably more animated when a stage magician places his very attractive daughter in the colonel's household, which stirs a lively romantic interest from his boys and from the great man himself.