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After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister. Both of them fall prey to a womanizing mechanic with psychopathic tendencies.
- Release Date
26 July 1953
- DirectingJean-Pierre Melville
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