Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
  • Release date: 16 Dec 1960
  • Release year: 1960
  • Runtime: 88 minutes
  • Country: France
  • Keywords: or as title separator, love, european comedy, europe, number 20 in title, french comedy, modern day adaptation, period drama, world war two, based on novel
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The film is based on Voltaire story "Candide, or Optimism" (1759), transferred to the twentieth century, during the Second World War, about the love of Cunegonde and Candide.
Based on the classic novel "Candide" by Voltaire, but set in the World War II era. In this story, Candide, a young Westphalian born in the castle of Thunder-ten-tronckh, is driven out of the castle, and joins his tutor Pangloss and his girlfriend Cunegonde to find another world with no Bulgars, Avars, or Jews.
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