Smugglers' Songs

2012· 97 min★ 6.1· Adventure

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…”

Cast: Jacques Nolot, Christian Milia-Darmezin, Kenji Levan

Director: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche