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Goubi, paysan naïf de l’Allier, rêve de visiter Paris. Quand l’occasion se présente. A peine arrivé dans la capitale, il se perd dans le grand marché des Halles, rencontre un patron tyrannique qui le prend sous sa protection, et La Fleur, une prostituée au grand coeur qui rêve d’herbage et de grand air.
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Idiot in Paris (1967)
90 min
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'...