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Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard (1993)
Directed by Christian Fechner
Overview
Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery, having bitten his nose off. The child is bought up by an ex-pirate and his wife and is taught to read, write, count, joust and fence, and is also given a wooden nose. However, he is ordered by a local baron to attend a tough seminary, but he soon rebels and makes an action-packed escape…
Length 160 minutes
Actors
Pierre-Olivier Mornas | Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu | Ticky Holgado | Bernard Haller | Patrice Valota | Roland Blanche | Didier Pain | Bernard Farcy | Valérie Stroh | Chick Ortega | Maxime Leroux | Zouc