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The Passionate Life of Edith Piaf (8-Feb-2007)

Original Title: La Môme

Director: Olivier Dahan

Writers: Olivier Dahan; Isabelle Sobelman

Keywords: Drama, Biography

Biopic dramatizes the life and career of French singer Edith Piaf.

ABSTRACT
Marion Cotillard is Edith Piaf, famous French singer whose career as a cabaret performer lasting up until her untimely death would bring her international fame and acclaim. Told out of chronological order, viewers are treated to a dramatization of her early years spent with a father away at war and a mother working in a brothel, her discovery and overnight rise to fame as a French national icon, and an adulthood marked by hard living, wild romances, and threats made against her by parties tied to organized crime.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Marion Cotillard
Actor
30-Sep-1975   Taxi
Gerard Depardieu
Actor
27-Dec-1948   Cyrano de Bergerac
Garrick Hagon
Actor
27-Sep-1939   Gavin Jones in The Adventurer
Emmanuelle Seigner
Model
22-Jun-1966   Frantic

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