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Les Surprises de l'amour - Comique Fou rire
Love's Surprises - Side-splitting Comedy
Year: 1909

Everyone seems to be looking for an excuse to get away from the Sunday lunch table. But where are the father and both his sons running off to? To their mistress’s, of course.

This exceptional nitrate copy, coloured using a stencil process (which is extremely rare for a film by the great Max Linder), was discovered in the nineties by a collector from Charente.

Director: Max LINDER
Nationality: French
Actors: Max Linder, Jacques Vandenne
Length: 6' 11"
Genre: comedy
Sound: silent with soundtrack
Original elements: black & white
Producer: Pathé
Composer: Antonio Coppola
Original language: French
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