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Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers and musicians.
Direction
Guitry's camera never moves; his ego supplies all the motion.
Writing
Witty, venomous, self-mythologizing — pure Sacha.

Director
Sacha Guitry
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