Release Date | 1963-06-08 |
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Runtime | 94 minutes |
Genres | Adventure |
Stars | Charles Aznavour, Marie Laforêt, Franco Fabrizi, Richard Badouh, Matias Ferreira Diaz |
Directors | Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, Georges Garvarentz, Quinto Albicocco, Borys Lewin |
This South American adventure drama finds Charles (Charles Aznavour), a youthful Frenchman traveling to Paraguay to start a new life. Seeking out a rich uncle, the idealistic nephew is rejected by his miserly relation, and he goes on to get involved with a shady woman and a band of gun runners who supply arms for the revolution of the week. Charles and his new girlfriend head for the border after a shootout with federal troops, and a kindly railroad worker hides the couple in an abandoned copper mine. Charles is later thrown in prison while the girl becomes a concubine, but her violator is killed when Charles escapes to rescue her and exact revenge. A pretty harrowing composition could be written by the young couple on "How I Spent My Summer Vacation."