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The film is based on the novel by Simone Arèse ''Mado''.

Plot

In a French provincial town where everyone knows each other for years and nothing ever happens, lives a young overweight woman by the name of Mado (Marianne Groves). She works as a

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. Mado also teaches at a local school, where she tells

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s to children. She is innocent and pure like a child and is dreaming of a beautiful prince. One day director Jean-Marie Zeleni ( Oleg Yankovsky) comes to the village to search for locations for his new film, and thus becomes the "prince" for Mado. She immediately invites him to dinner, but realizing her unattractiveness, takes with herself her friend Germain ( Isabelle Gélinas), a local prostitute. The slim and charming Germain immediately evokes the director's liking, and Mado can only observe their relationship. Then it turns out that the object of Mado's girlish dreams is a failed film director who shoots now

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instead of feature films. Having filmed the next ad, he leaves, and Mado has only to watch from afar his touching farewell to Germain. From desperation she decides to drown herself, but then sets this thought aside and only watches from the river as the people of the village begin to be really worried about her.

Cast

*Marianne Groves as Mado * Oleg Yankovsky as director Jean-Marie Zeleni *

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as shepherd * Isabelle Gélinas as Germain *Bernard Freud as the priest *Michel Vinogradov as Henri Lamont *Olivier Pajot as Belfour *André Pomarat as Perduvent

Awards

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— Special Prize at the

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Prospect of French cinema * 1990 — Prize of the Youth Jury - Aleksandr Adabashyan, IFF Europe Cinema in Ravenna

References

External links

* 1990s Russian-language films 1990s French-language films 1990 directorial debut films French romantic drama films 1990 romantic drama films 1990 films Soviet romantic drama films Russian romantic drama films 1990s French films {{1990s-USSR-film-stub