Various Facts About Paris
★ 9 · 1950 · 75m · Drama
Full of hopes, the young Raymonde leaves her country life in north of France to work in Paris. She promises her first love, François, that she will return to marry him. But their lives take differents paths, even if they never stop loving each other.
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