FRANCE · 1939

The Phantom Wagon

Julien Duvivier
redemption death and mortality poverty moral reckoning new year's eve
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Synopsis

French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.

Year1939
CountryFrance
DirectorJulien Duvivier
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