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Comme un Boomerang (1976)

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José Giovanni (real name: Jacques Damiani) is one of the more interesting but also very dubious French filmmakers of the post-World War II era.

He spent eleven and a half years in prison, among other things for collaboration with the Germans and complicity in a triple murder.

He started writing crime novels such as Le Trou in the mid-1950s, which were n…

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