When You Read This Letter
Film19531h 47m
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- Director
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Language
- French
- Released
- 1953-07-26
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
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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.
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