À belles dents (1966)
Directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit

Drama
aka: Living it Up

Film Synopsis

Eva Ritter leads an easy and uncomplicated life until her parents die in tragic circumstances.  With nothing to fall back on, she ends up working as an au pair for a bourgeois couple in Paris, where she meets and falls in love with a promising young architect.  After a whirlwind romance, the architect goes off to Africa, leaving Eva behind.  On impulse, she then marries a rich South American, and when he dies she finds herself with a vast fortune at her disposal.  Eva now has everything she could possibly want, expect the love of the man who once meant so much to her...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Pierre Gaspard-Huit
  • Script: Will Berthold, Jean-Loup Dabadie (dialogue), Pierre Gaspard-Huit
  • Cinematographer: Werner M. Lenz
  • Music: Jacques Loussier
  • Cast: Mireille Darc (Eva Ritter), Jacques Charrier (Jean-Loup Costa), Daniel Gélin (Bernard), Peter van Eyck (Peter von Kessner), Paul Hubschmid (Francesco Jimenez), Tilda Thamar (Stella), Erika Remberg (Marie), Ilse Steppat (Carol Stevens), Reinhold Timm (Jaro), Ingrid Steeger (Girl on fancy dress party), Maurice Garrel, Robert Le Béal, Ellen Bahl, Helga Lehner, Henry Djanik, Christian Lude
  • Country: France / West Germany
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 105 min
  • Aka: Living it Up

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