
Once Upon a Time...: Children of Paradise(2009)
Television documentary about the making of Marcel Carné's 1945 film "Children of Paradise"

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Once Upon a Time...: Children of Paradise
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Television documentary about the making of Marcel Carné's 1945 film "Children of Paradise"
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2009-05-25
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