Smugglers' Songs

Smugglers' Songs

97 mins | Adventure | Aug. 8, 2011

Early on in this engaging historical drama, a marquis (played by the singularly droll Jacques Nolot) offers a peddler a carriage ride on a remote country road. After sizing up his benefactor, the peddler fights motion sickness to deliver his sales pitch: “I have here a few objects of wonder, pious images, pamphlets against men of the cloth, newspapers from Amsterdam and London, holy cards, quills, writing paper…”

Smugglers' Songs

97 mins | Adventure | Aug. 8, 2011

Smugglers' Songs
Early on in this engaging historical drama, a marquis (played by the singularly droll Jacques Nolot) offers a peddler a carriage ride on a remote country road. After sizing up his benefactor, the peddler fights motion sickness to deliver his sales pitch: “I have here a few objects of wonder, pious images, pamphlets against men of the cloth, newspapers from Amsterdam and London, holy cards, quills, writing paper…”
IMDb rating 6.2
Producers Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, Sarrazink Productions, Maharaja Films
Original title Les Chants de Mandrin
Directors Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
Writers Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

Cast

Jacques Nolot

as Le marquis

Christian Milia-Darmezin

as Le colporteur Jean Sératin

Kenji Levan

as Court-Toujours

Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

as Bélissard

Sylvain Roumette

as Ma Noblesse

Nicolas Bancilhon

as Blondin

Abel Jafri

as La Buse

Sylvain Rifflet

as La Flûte

Sylvia Albaret

as Mandrinette

Xavier Pons

as Le sergent

Jean-Luc Nancy

as L'imprimeur Jean-Luc Cynan

Yann-Yvon Pennec

as Le brigadier-chef

Carlos Manini

as Kalou

Jean-Louis Delmas

as Delmas