Rediscovering "Мордас пас на т’аime" (1976) – A Soviet Experimental Oddity
The film features a notable cast of French actors and was written by director in collaboration with François Boyer . Georges (The Father) Bernard Fresson Frédéric Yves Coudray Catherine Allégret Sylviane Bressy Availability and Legacy
(English title: Don't Bite, We Love You ) is a 1976 French drama film directed by Yves Allégret . The movie follows Frédéric, a rebellious ten-year-old boy living with his grandparents who struggles with his father's absences and the revelation that his mother abandoned him at birth. Plot Overview mords pas on t aime 1976 ok ru
No public release exists, but a 2-minute fragment is preserved at the Lithuanian Central State Archives (reel 47/6-1976). Plans for a digital restoration are pending funding.
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This linguistic confusion might have been intentional — a surrealist or absurdist statement against rigid Soviet realism.
* Director. Yves Allégret. * Writers. Yves Allégret. François Boyer. * Stars. Bernard Fresson. Yves Coudray. Catherine Allégret. * Director
The film never received official distribution. For decades, it was dismissed as a student prank. However, in 2010, a copy resurfaced at a flea market in Vilnius. Film historians now consider it an important example of — a strange, poetic whisper against the machinery of socialist realism.
Based on a single surviving 8mm print found in the Minsk film archive, the film is 14 minutes long, black-and-white, with no dialogue — only avant-garde jazz on a damaged magnetic tape. It shows: