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Avortement clandestin!(1973)
Status: Released
Date: 1973-04-19
70%
1 Votes
Time: 1h 12m
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Sophie, a young employee, gets raped on her way back from work and realizes some time later that she is pregnant. She does not want to keep the baby but abortion is illegal. Who can she tell? She first keeps her secret to herself but Jacques, her boyfriend, notices something is the matter with her and manages to make her talk. When he learns about her lot, he advises her to let her mother know. First, the distressed Sophie is unable to as she feels too low but, at long last, she does it. Sophie's mother, who immediately sympathizes with her daughter, undertakes to find a way out, why not a in a London clinic?
Languages: French.
Countries:
Belgium,
France
ProductionCompanies:
Eurociné
Brux International Pictures
Movie: Avortement clandestin!
Top 10 Billed Cast
Alice Arno
Marie-France
Daniel Bellus
Jacques
Olivier Mathot
The director of the agency
Marcel Charvey
The first doctor
René Bériard
Alix Mahieux
Mme Brunet - the butcher
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Sophie, a young employee, gets raped on her way back from work and realizes some time later that she is pregnant. She does not want to keep the baby but abortion is illegal. Who can she tell? She first keeps her secret to herself but Jacques, her boyfriend, notices something is the matter with her and manages to make her talk. When he learns about her lot, he advises her to let her mother know. First, the distressed Sophie is unable to as she feels too low but, at long last, she does it. Sophie's mother, who immediately sympathizes with her daughter, undertakes to find a way out, why not a in a London clinic?
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1973-04-19
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