LE TATOUE

Le Tatoué is a film Franco-Italian realized by Denys De La Patellière, release in 1968.

♦ Synopsis :

Antique dealer enriched in the trade by naive paintings, Félicien Mezeray meets in the painter Dubois, a former légionary of the name of Legrain, come to be made portraiturer, and which relates tattooed to the back authentic Modigliani. At once considering, at once sold with two American collectors, Smith and Larsen. As the ex-soldier is reticent "to sell his skin", Mezeray proposes to him to repair its country house in exchange of this single work of art. But it is unaware of that the house in question is a castle of XVe century in ruins, remains ancestral of the coléreux légionary and misanthropist…

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♦ Quotations :

- What he has in the back ?
- A tattoo !
- We would say a reproduction of Modigliani !
- What is that I have a head to have a reproduction ?!

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