CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1962
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THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1962 0h 28m FRA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

A man travels through time as he watches the destruction of cities and the devastation of the earth's surface that threatens his present.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

William Klein

Jean Négroni

Narrator (voice)