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Sugar is a french film of genre Comedy directed by Jacques Rouffio with Jean Carmet
Sugar (1978)
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Add to a movie listThe Sugar (or Le sucre) is a French drama, crime, thriller film directed by Jacques Rouffio.
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The film recounts a fraud case, on the basis of the speculative bubble on the price of sugar in 1974. A small saver, Adrien Courtois lose all the inheritance of his wife. The Viscount Raoul Renaud Homécourt of Vibraye is a fantastic and unscrupulous broker. Between the two men, so different, will be born a friendship and complicity. Around this couple gravitate some savory characters...Actors
Jean Carmet
(Adrien Courtois)
Gérard Depardieu
(Raoul-Renaud Homecourt)
Michel Piccoli
(Grezillo)
Nelly Borgeaud
(Hilda Courtois)
Georges Descrières
(Vandelmont)
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