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The Opportunists
Les Arrivistes
by Louis Daquin · France, German Democratic Republic · 1960 · 1h49
During the Restoration, a former Officer of Napoleon, whose greed knows no bounds, sets his sights on his uncle’s fortune…A captivating adaptation of Balzac’s book La Rabouilleuse (The Black Sheep/The Two Brothers), it employs historical reenactment to draw a portrait of human ambition.
The Opportunists (Les Arrivistes)
France, German Democratic Republic, 1960, 1h49, noir et blanc, format 1.37
Lumière Classics Label
2026 4K restoration by Pathé at L'Image Retrouvée laboratory (Paris-Bologna), with the support of the CNC. Exclusive.
Distributor: Pathé