Les Gauloises bleues

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Les Gauloises bleues
Directed by Michel Cournot
Written by Michel Cournot
Produced by Georges Dancigers
Claude Lelouch
Alexandre Mnouchkine
Starring Annie Girardot
Cinematography Alain Levent
Edited byAgnès Guillemot
Release date
  • 1968 (1968)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office$2,712,645 [1]

Les Gauloises bleues is a 1968 French drama film directed by Michel Cournot. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, [2] but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.

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References

  1. "Les Gauloises bleues (1968) - JPBox-Office".
  2. "Festival de Cannes: Les Gauloises bleues". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 April 2009.