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The Golden Fish

The Golden Fish

7,3 /10 (9 Votes)
1959 FR 19 min

Overview

A silent, lyrical short in which a boy’s newly won goldfish is threatened by the family cat, and saved through a quiet act of animal solidarity.

Release date

12/10/1959

Votes

9

Popularity

0.2

Genres

Status

Released

Original title

Histoire d'un poisson rouge

Language

FR

Runtime

19 min

Original Soundtrack

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2024-02-10

⭐ 6

A young lad (Louis Paul) returns home from school, feeds his pet canary a sugar lump then heads to the fair where he takes a shine to a goldfish that's the prize in a roulette competition. He can't afford to play but a man (Gilbert Hugues) comes along afterwards and to the obvious chagrin of the fish, determines he is going to do a bit of spread betting so he can win it at all costs! Amusingly, the fish is having done of this and is steadfastly remaining inside of it's rocky hideaway inside the tank. Failing to convince it to come out, the man must make do with another. Luckily for the youngst…

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