''Les Longs Manteaux'' is a

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film, directed by

Gilles Béhat Gilles Marc Béhat (3 September 1949) is a French filmmaker and actor. Biography Gilles Béhat (Béat by birth) was born in Lille. The confusion around the "h" in his last name stems from an error in the credits of the first film he participated ...

, which links drama and action in the

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genre. Released in 1986, it lasts 1 hour 46 minutes.

Synopsis

Loïc Murat, a French geologist, makes camp on a

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n mountain. He comes across a group of fascists, Les Longs Manteaux, who want to assassinate the writer Juan Mendez. Murat also gets to know Julia, Mendez's daughter.

Production

The army uniforms came from the

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External links

* 1986 films 1980s French-language films 1980s Spanish-language films Films set in Bolivia Films set in Argentina Films directed by Gilles Béhat 1986 multilingual films Argentine multilingual films French multilingual films 1980s French films 1980s Argentine films {{1980s-France-film-stub