Mouchette
Mar 28 1967
•1h 21m
•Drama
A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.
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Nadine Nortier
Mouchette
Jean-Claude Guilbert
Arsène
Marie Cardinal
Mouchette's Mother
Paul Hébert
Mouchette's Father
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