Smugglers' Songs (movie)
Les Chants de Mandrin- User score: 5.9
- Production country: France
- Producer: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche
- Production companies: Sarrazink Productions, Maharaja Films, CNC
- Genre: Adventure
- Release date: 8/8/2011
- Run time: 97 min.
Movie description
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…”
