Smugglers' Songs

(2012)

★ 5.5 IMDb · 10 votes

Genres: Adventure

Year: 2012

Runtime: 97 мин

Country: France

Director: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche

Cast: Jacques Nolot, Christian Milia-Darmezin, Kenji Levan, Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Salim Ameur-Zaïmeche, Sylvain Roumette, Nicolas Bancilhon, Абель Жафри, Sylvain Rifflet, Sylvia Albaret

Plot

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…”