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Max Takes a Bath

19107 minFrance
Comedy

Synopsis

Ordered by a doctor to take cold baths, Max buys a tub and struggles to bring it home. Filling it in the hallway creates a new problem: neighbours and police turn his private treatment into a public procession.

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Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
9:39
Subtitles
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No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Max Linder / Lucien Nonguet · Public domain

Cast

DirectorsLucien Nonguet

Behind the scenes

The comedy makes transport and domestic space as troublesome as the bath itself. Camera effects extend the chase beyond what the cumbersome tub could normally allow.

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