Woman Is Courage

Woman Is Courage

 

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0h 58m 2003 HD

Louisette finally ends her 40-year search for a French military doctor known to her only as Commander Richaud, in order to express her gratitude to him for saving her life, when she was captured in a field in September 1957 and tortured by French forces until Richaud rescued her.


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