Les Chants de Mandrin (2011)

Title: Smugglers' Songs

Original Title: Les Chants de Mandrin

Release Date: 2011-08-08

Status: Released

Rating: 5.8/10 (from 8 votes)

Language: EN

Genres: Adventure

Production Companies: Sarrazink Productions, Maharaja Films, CNC

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…”