Movie: The Chips Are Down

Top 10 Billed Cast

Micheline Presle
Micheline Presle

Eve Charlier

Marcello Pagliero
Marcello Pagliero

Pierre Dumaine

Marguerite Moreno
Marguerite Moreno

La dame de l'au-delà

Charles Dullin
Charles Dullin

Le marquis

Fernand Fabre
Fernand Fabre

André Charlier

Jacques Erwin
Jacques Erwin

Jean Aguerra

Colette Ripert
Colette Ripert

Lucette

Marcel Mouloudji
Marcel Mouloudji

Lucien Derjeu

Guy Decomble
Guy Decomble

Poulain

Howard Vernon
Howard Vernon

Le chef milicien

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    "Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at life if they can prove their love is real or be doomed to roam the earth as ghosts.

  • Release Date

    1947-07-01

  • Average

    6.7

  • Rating:

    3.4 starts
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  • Languages:

    Français
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