Le Trèfle à cinq feuilles (1972)
Directed by Edmond Freess

Comedy
aka: Five Leaf Clover

Film Synopsis

Léon and Germaine Constance are a mean-spirited couple who enter into a viager arrangement with an old couple, Alfred and Daisy, who desperately need money.  In view of their advanced years, the Contances expect that it will only be a short time before they will gain possession of their landlord's house, but it is always dangerous to count your chickens before they have hatched...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Edmond Freess
  • Script: Pierre Fabre, Edmond Freess
  • Cinematographer: Raoul Coutard
  • Music: Georges Moustaki, Hubert Rostaing
  • Cast: Philippe Noiret (Alfred), Liselotte Pulver (Daisy), Micha Bayard (Germaine Constant), Maurice Biraud (Georges-André Constant), Jean Carmet (Lord Picratt), Jean-Roger Caussimon (Vampirus), Barbara Cederlung (Isabelle), Monique Chaumette (Marie-Berthe), Pierre Fabre (Ferdinand), Thalie Frugès (Chloë), Corinne Koeningswarter (Isalaide), Ginette Leclerc (L'épicière), Paul Préboist (Léon Constant), Bernard La Jarrige, Clément Mathurin
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 85 min
  • Aka: Five Leaf Clover

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