La Cavalcade des heures (1943) Directed by Yvan Noé
Comedy / Drama
aka: Love Around the Clock
Film Synopsis
Hora, goddess of time, arrives on Earth to help various individuals at
crucial moments in their life. Adopting various disguises, she
appears before a man who seeks to escape from his humdrum household, a
mother torn between her lover and her little boy, a popular singer who
is exasperated by his admirers and a killer who has been sentenced to
death. It's a busy life being a deity...
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