Word: rivi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small room. Both operating rooms were full, and one of the two washrooms had been converted for emergency service. On a table in the morgue lay a two-year-old boy caught in a crossfire, his stomach full of shrapnel; next to him was the corpse of André Rivière, a French soldier of fortune who was one of Caamaño's top aides. When they carted him out, a young rebel dramatically poked a finger into Riviére's still-oozing neck wound and daubed the blood on his rifle trigger...
...preparations was going on in New York. Ready for the tables were 680 handmade, solid-wax candles with a five-hour burning capacity. In the Waldorf kitchens, the staff was preparing 1,800 small brook trout raised specifically in a Long Island hatchery for the appetizer: Truite de Rivière en Gelée à la Muguette. In the ballroom, a team of theater directors and producers rehearsed spotlighting cues for introduction of guests until 6:30 a.m. Monday. Last-minute acceptances and cancellations kept the seating plan in a state of flux until just before the dinner began...
Cayatte suffers some confusions in his script, but he is fortunate in his principals -Aznavour, Rivière and Trantow all play with clarity, sensitivity, restraint. As is customary in a conte moral, the film simplifies life to teach a lesson, but in this case the lesson is profound: True freedom is the freedom to do good...