
26 May 2005

The Tin Mine
A failed engineering student in the late 1940s gets the unexpected education of a lifetime by working for four years in a rainforest tin mine.
The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.
Guy de Maupassant
François
Gisèle d'Estoc
Maupassant's mother
Fanny
Daremberg
Comtesse Potocka
Gustave
Dorchain
Princesse Polignac
Docteur Blanche
Mouche
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A failed engineering student in the late 1940s gets the unexpected education of a lifetime by working for four years in a rainforest tin mine.
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