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![Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century (1960)](/media/img/movie/poster/m/09/f06e388b87b345d83e53e7f3.jpg)
Based on the classic novel
The film is a 20th-century adaptation of Voltaire's 1759 social satire novel Candide, ou l’Optimisme.
France France
Jean-Pierre Cassel Daliah Lavi Pierre Brasseur Louis de Funès Michel Simon Jean Poiret Michel Serrault Jean Tissier Luis Mariano Nadia Gray Mathilde Casadesus Darío Moreno Clément Duhour Jacqueline Maillan Jacques Balutin Jean Richard Albert Simonin Robert Manuel Jean Constantin Michèle Verez Harold Kay O'Dett John William Don Ziegler François Chalais Dominique Just Maurice Biraud Pierre Repp Mireille Alcon Sybil Saulnier Danièle Tessier Habib Benglia Michel Garland Gib Grossac Marcel Journet Alice Sapritch Edy Sylvian Michel Thomass
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