Coco Chanel
Sep 13 2008
•2h 19m
•Drama, Romance
Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, wars, doomed romances, and rather glamorous betrayals.
Cast
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Shirley MacLaine
Coco Chanel
Malcolm McDowell
Marc Bouchier
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Paul Poiret
Barbora Bobuľová
Young Coco Chanel
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