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Checkerboard

7.019592h 5mMovieDrama

In a small Gallic village, tourists are regaled by street entertainers and brash prostitutes. One of the tourists, a black girl named Bessie, falls in love with local villager Bob, and he with her. Soon racial tensions erupt volcanically…

DirectorClaude Bernard-Aubert
WritersClaude Accursi·Claude Bernard-Aubert

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Cast · Directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert

JRJacques Richard
Jacques Richard
Bob Stanley
TB
Toto Bissainthe
Bessie Vance
DSDouta Seck
Douta Seck
Vance
GAGrégoire Aslan
Grégoire Aslan
Stanley père
RBRoger Blin
Roger Blin
Slim, le guide
MVMilly Vitale
Milly Vitale
Daura
ACAnne Carrère
Anne Carrère
La touriste
NPNico Pepe
Nico Pepe
Le policier
LRLucien Raimbourg
Lucien Raimbourg
Le juge

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