
Maître Pygmalion
1975-07-27 · 170 min · ★ 7.0
Juliette, a young woman of twenty-five, works unsuccessfully as a sales representative. Discouraged, on the point of giving up, Juliette meets Christian, a brilliant and seductive salesman, who offers her to play Pygmalion: he will be the master, she will be the pupil. But the master falls in love with Juliette.
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- Directors
- Hélène Durand, Jacques Nahum
- Production companies
- Institut Français de Formation pour l'image
- Countries
- France
- Status
- Released
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Claude JadeJuliette
Georges DescrièresChristian / Pygmalion I
Dominique PaturelPygmalion II
Michel RuhlPygmalion III
André Falcon
Roland Lesaffre
Bernard Lavalette
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