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Swimming Instructor

Swimming Instructor

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 28, 1979

Runtime

1h 35m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

User Score

56%

Original Title

Le Maître-nageur

Production Companies

Nadja Films, Odyssey

Director

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Description

Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time crooner Marcel Potier. Together they leave for the South of France where they live happily but poorly. Now, Marie hasn't forgotten her hopes of wealth and with this aim still in mind she pushes Marcel into becoming the swimming instructor of Achille Zopoulos, an oil tycoon.