My Father the Hero
Oct 23 1991
•2h 45m
•Comedy, Drama
Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up stories about her father. She presents him as her lover, a mercenary and even a secret agent which gets her into trouble and then her father has to start playing along...
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Gérard Depardieu
André Arnel
Marie Gillain
Véronique "Véro" Arnel
Catherine Jacob
Christelle
Charlotte de Turckheim
Irina
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