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Paul Vecchiali

Paul Vecchiali

Paul Vecchiali (born 28 April 1930 in Ajaccio, Corsica, France) is a French filmmaker and author.

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Movies Made By Paul Vecchiali (68)

Bonjour la langue (2025)

When his train stops at Draguignan station, Jean-Luc suddenly decides to get off and pay an impromptu visit to his father, who he hasn't seen in over six years. An answer to "Adieu au langage" by Godard. ...

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Pas... de quartier (2022)

A musico-drama that takes place in a transvestite cabaret that wants to open up to Ramatuelle. The mayor is enthusiastic but his city council, much less. They will hire henchmen to sabotage the project. ...

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Un soupçon d'amour (2020)

A theater actress leaves her show to retire with her sick son to her childhood city. ...

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Train de vies (2018)

"Train de vies" crosses a series of characters who, in pairs, confess to each other their innermost desires and their most secret memories. ...

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The Seven Deserters Or The Never Ending War (2017)

In a ruined house, four men and two women find a nun. All these people have deserted an anonymous war. ...

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The Dunce (2016)

Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection. Despite the women of his life hanging aro ...

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It's Love (2016)

Odile suspects her husband, Jean, is cheating. Thus she decides to give him a taste of his own medicine. Fate gets her in touch with an actor, Daniel, who she will use for her revenge. The actor, living with a former serviceman, Albert, will make love with ...

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Trois mots en passant (2015)

A young man, Benoît, is in love with a young girl, Victoire, but she breaks up with him to marry a rich farmer. The young man makes a habit of prowling around Victoire's house. One day, she is in labor, and the young man, having heard her screams, forces ...

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White Nights on the Pier (2014)

A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her. ...

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Wrong Harmonies (2014)

After the death of his partner, a man discovers on the Internet that the latter had virtual relations with another man. ...

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Retour à Mayerling (2011)

A film in which the house is itself a fundamental element and in which Vecchiali assumes the role of a recurring character, who responds by diverse names. It is the film of Vecchiali in which the representation of the ghosts is literal, in the bodies and s ...

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Les gens d'en-bas (2010)

After moving to Provence, Vecchiali started shooting a series of films that have Villa Mayerling as their main focus. Esotericism and intrigues bath the film around the character of Alain, a shady summer worker. ...

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Humeurs et rumeurs (2009)

A film by Paul Vecchiali. Part of the Villa Mayerling pentalogy. ...

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...Et tremble d'être heureux (2007)

A film by Paul Vecchiali. Part 2 of the Villa Mayerling pentalogy. ...

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Être ou ne pas être (2007)

A film by Paul Vecchiali. Part of the Villa Mayerling pentalogy. ...

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Bareback ou la Guerre des sens (2006)

A cinephile meets his favourite film maker on a beach in Ramatuelle. He proposes a film project to the director based on the painful adventures that he has just experienced. The two men work on the scenes, each in its own way. The film maker keeps pushing ...

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Et + si @ff (2006)

The parallel fates of a few inhabitants of a strange planet : the world of Internet gay encounters... ...

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À vot' bon cœur (2005)

French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is tryin ...

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Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition (1998)

The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies. ...

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Love Reinvented (1997)

Different aspects of homosexual romance are explored in this compendium of ten short vignettes encompassing a broad look at AIDS and range for the tale of a lesbian teen trying to come out to her parents, to a gay man who shocks his lover by claiming to be ...

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Zone franche (1996)

Set within a housing project located on the outskirts of Alsace, this French docudrama features a largely non-professional cast and centers on the interrelationship between a pair of elderly French nationals, Arab immigrants and a newly arrived family from ...

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The Tears of AIDS (1996)

A bisexual married man meets a gay man whilst bathing in a small deserted creek and they fall in love even though the gay man has AIDS... He describes this sudden passion in simple words. Paul Vecchiali contribution to omnibus film 'L'@mour est à réinven ...

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Les Boulingrin (1995)

An adaptation of the comic play by Georges Courteline. ...

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Wonderboy (1994)

A reluctant boxer is the focus of this unique French romance. Maurice dreams of becoming a violinist. But his father, a former boxing champion crippled by his bouts, has other dreams for his pudgy but strong 18 year old son. He wants Maurice to become the ...

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The Earth for the Living (1994)

Paul Vecchiali's short ode to self-immolation, made in cahoots with the French Federation of Cremation. Didactic and semi-documentary, but, like another dust story, Franju's Les Poussières, always personal. A film about the body, parents, memory and love ...

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Point d'orgue (1993)

Sébastien Fischer, a celebrated pianist, takes the advice of his agent and friend Gorgio and decides to take a break and spend some time in a little village in Provence, at the house of Avril Espart. ...

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Fugue en sol mineur (1992)

One of the last productions for Diagonale, before De sueur et de sang, the feature film with which Vecchiali would close the cycle of the French production company. ...

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L'Impure (1991)

Paris, 1931. A beautiful young french woman suddenly gives up her career as a model after she discovers she has leprosy. She then quits her luxury life with her husband and her little boy and leaves for the Fidji islands in an attempt to get healed in a sp ...

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La Fille du magicien (1990)

Lili is twenty years old, has an English mother, a magician father, a voice from elsewhere and a gift that only children know: the power of her own desire. It all starts with a summer night: that summer, Lili and Bruno will find love. ...

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La tendresse de l'araignée (1990)

A mother takes vengeance on her dead son's ex-girlfriend. ...

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Guys in the Cafe (1989)

A night of drinking in a local cafe quickly turns to tragedy for two of its patrons. ...

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Imogène (1989)

Loosely based on the book series by Charles Exbrayat. ...

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Once More (1988)

Louis is a family man, with a wife and young daughter, who discovers in mid-life that he is gay. ...

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With Feeling (1987)

A man sings next to a young girl playing the piano. A bucolic landscape, smiles, pensive faces. With them stands a woman (their mother?) who listens to them play and sing. ...

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Soft qui peut (1986)

Part of the omnibus 'Sexy Folies' aired on French television on 1986. A veiled woman watches a couple have sex on the beach. ...

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À titre posthume (1986)

A young policeman searches for the murderers of his drug addict sister. While he carries out his investigations, the criminals manage to get him charged with murder. ...

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Qui trop embrasse... (1986)

How couples unite, interact, separate, reunite or find other partners. The links in this chain begin with Christian and Nathalie, who are coworkers and friends. Christian discovers that his lover Francoise is having an affair, and Nathalie advises him to g ...

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Le Tiers providentiel (1986)

In a supermarket parking lot, two shoppers push a shopping cart to their car. A helpful man approaches them. Friendly at first, his behavior soon becomes strange, invasive and aggressive. ...

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Rosa la rose, fille publique (1986)

A radiant young sex worker thrives amidst the clients of Paris's Les Halles under the protectiveness of her pimp. Her carefully balanced existence unravels when she meets a working‑class man and falls in love, forcing her to confront the emotional and so ...

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Trous de mémoire (1985)

On Paul's initiative, Françoise and Paul met after a long separation, on the pretext to search in commun for a lost memory, a song. It soons appears that Paul's objective is to win her back. ...

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Lettre d'un cinéaste (1983)

This filmed letter commissioned by Michel Boujut and broadcasted in October 1983 in his TV programme Cinéma cinema takes the viewer right to the heart of Vecchiali's system. ...

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At the Top of the Stairs (1983)

A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear. ...

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Archipelago of Love (1983)

Nine short films about love. ...

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Pornoscopie (1983)

The tribulations of a bisexual who's a bit of an exhibitionist. ...

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La Visiteuse (1981)

Claire, a young woman visits an old friend to relieve her heartache. ...

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C'est la vie ! (1981)

Ginette is at phone with the famous Rachah Rangers, who hosts a daily radio program. She talks about her break with Richard, her various relationship problems, her desires, fears and reproaches. Her friend, Simone Barbes, advised her to live, urgently, a n ...

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Nightmare (1980)

A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a hidden talent when she goes into a bar, plays magnificently at the piano, and leaves as mysteriously as she came. Meanwhile, an unidentified man is on her trail ...

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Versailles (1980)

A short film by Paul Vecchiali, produced during the Diagonale years. ...

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Simone Barbès or Virtue (1980)

Simone, a leather-clad porn theater worker, spends her shifts bantering with her coworker and observing eccentric customers in the cinema's lobby. Tonight, she clocks out and heads off to meet her girlfriend, a waitress at a lesbian club. Later, she'll enc ...

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Drugstore Romance (1979)

Pierrot, mechanic in Paris, falls madly for a female chemist his senior—who at first refuses him, only accepting love after being diagnosed with a deadly illness. ...

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Fine Manners (1978)

Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few years volun ...

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Maladie (1978)

18 years after his father died of cancer a man discovers the diary of his illness. ...

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The Theatre of the Matters (1977)

The fortunes of a small theatrical company based in the Paris suburbs. ...

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La Machine (1977)

Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media. ...

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Tomorrow's Children (1976)

The hero of this bleak science-fiction story is a married man who, along with his wife, survives the mysterious destruction of the world. After his wife dies, he makes plans to seek out whatever remnants of civilization exist. However, the arrival of a gro ...

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Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)

A lonely young widow lives with her son following an immutable order: while the boy is in school, she cares for their apartment, does chores, and receives clients in the afternoon. ...

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Aloïse (1975)

Aloise creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric ...

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Femmes femmes (1974)

The fantasies and dreams of two over-the-hill actresses are intertwined with their realities, as the two roommates struggle to survive their day-to-day lives in the expensive and difficult world of Paris. ...

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Albert Camus (1974)

A documentary on Albert Camus. ...

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Témoignages : Prenez garde aux moroses (1973)

Prenez garde aux moroses is a French tv film written by Félicien Marceau and directed by Paul Vecchiali. ...

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Les jonquilles (1972)

Old Léon lives an hour outside Paris, in the company of one of his daughters, his son-in-law and his granddaughter. The latter agrees to take him to see his paralyzed cousin Adolphe in a Paris hospice. He takes the opportunity to visit his first wife, try ...

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The Strangler (1971)

Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his suffocating white scarf, an inspector resorts to unorthodox methods to get him with the assistance of a potential victim. ...

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The Devil's Tricks (1966)

Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and uneventful until the day when, to her surprise, she receives a letter containing a hundred-franc banknote. ...

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Nick Carter and Red Club (1965)

A secret agent uncovers four atomic rockets with a lethal gas warhead which have been stolen from a secret factory, and a dastardly plot. ...

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The Story of Rebecca (1964)

An adaptation of Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. ...

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Les Roses de la vie (1962)

François Truffaut said of Paul Vecchiali in his early days that he was "the only true heir of Jean Renoir." The first short film of this director, who was to become a singular figure of independent French cinema, follows the path of an elderly woman towar ...

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Movies Starring Paul Vecchiali (23)

Bonjour la langue (2025)

When his train stops at Draguignan station, Jean-Luc suddenly decides to get off and pay an impromptu visit to his father, who he hasn't seen in over six years. An answer to "Adieu au langage" by Godard. ...

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Un soupçon d'amour (2020)

A theater actress leaves her show to retire with her sick son to her childhood city. ...

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Danielle Darrieux : Il est poli d'être gai ! (2019)

Danielle Darrieux - icon and actress of the century: as a 16-year-old, the French actress perfectly embodied what we would call an "It Girl" today. She conquered Hollywood at a young age with elegance and charm. She defied the taboos of patriarchal society ...

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Train de vies (2018)

"Train de vies" crosses a series of characters who, in pairs, confess to each other their innermost desires and their most secret memories. ...

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The Dunce (2016)

Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection. Despite the women of his life hanging aro ...

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Un, parfois deux (2016)

Laurent Achard set up his camera on the set of Paul Vecchiali's film Le Cancre to capture the director's creative power. Although Vecchiali's precision is impressive, Achard also shows moments where his collaborators' input is essential. Under the director ...

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It's Love (2016)

Odile suspects her husband, Jean, is cheating. Thus she decides to give him a taste of his own medicine. Fate gets her in touch with an actor, Daniel, who she will use for her revenge. The actor, living with a former serviceman, Albert, will make love with ...

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White Nights on the Pier (2014)

A man walks every night along the jetty. There he meets a young woman who is waiting for the man of her life. Over four nights, they discuss life and he gradually falls in love with her. ...

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Wrong Harmonies (2014)

After the death of his partner, a man discovers on the Internet that the latter had virtual relations with another man. ...

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Biette (2013)

Documentary about the the film critic and filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette. ...

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L'autographe (2013)

An exchange, between Palermo and Paris, between a director who signs an autograph and his recipient who receives it, while listening to an extract from his favorite film. ...

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Qui êtes-vous Paul Vecchiali? (2012)

A documentary about the French film director Paul Vecchiali. ...

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Retour à Mayerling (2011)

A film in which the house is itself a fundamental element and in which Vecchiali assumes the role of a recurring character, who responds by diverse names. It is the film of Vecchiali in which the representation of the ghosts is literal, in the bodies and s ...

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L'Imprésario (2010)

In the fall of 2010, Bozon and co-conspirator Pascale Bodet commandeered the first floor of Paris's famed Centre Pompidou for 10 days of screenings, lectures and performances that amounted to a counter-canonical history of French cinema. During the ensuing ...

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Les gens d'en-bas (2010)

After moving to Provence, Vecchiali started shooting a series of films that have Villa Mayerling as their main focus. Esotericism and intrigues bath the film around the character of Alain, a shady summer worker. ...

Watch Now

Bareback ou la Guerre des sens (2006)

A cinephile meets his favourite film maker on a beach in Ramatuelle. He proposes a film project to the director based on the painful adventures that he has just experienced. The two men work on the scenes, each in its own way. The film maker keeps pushing ...

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À vot' bon cœur (2005)

French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is tryin ...

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The Earth for the Living (1994)

Paul Vecchiali's short ode to self-immolation, made in cahoots with the French Federation of Cremation. Didactic and semi-documentary, but, like another dust story, Franju's Les Poussières, always personal. A film about the body, parents, memory and love ...

Watch Now

Trous de mémoire (1985)

On Paul's initiative, Françoise and Paul met after a long separation, on the pretext to search in commun for a lost memory, a song. It soons appears that Paul's objective is to win her back. ...

Watch Now

La Machine (1977)

Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media. ...

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Happiness (1965)

Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker. One of Agnès Varda's most provocative films, 'Le bonheur' examines, with a d ...

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The Evening (1961)

Unfinished film by Jean Eustache . A couple kisses. A group of friends talk inside a room. One of them reads from a paper. ...

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