Le Garde du corps (1984)
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Jane Birkin, Gérard Jugnot, Sami Frey, Didier Kaminka, Evelyne Didi, Nicole Jamet, Daniel Langlet, Elisa Servier, Flore Fitzgerald, Jacqueline Doyen
A lovestruck accountant follows a newly married journalist and her zoo-owning husband to Morocco, convinced that her life is in danger.
The story
While preparing an article for the Daily Mirror about marriage in France, young English journalist Barbara Penning poses as a client at a Paris marriage agency. There she meets Julien Duchemin, the charming owner of a zoo, and falls for him; before long, they marry. Meanwhile, the agency’s accountant, Paul Domec, has fallen in love with Barbara. He discovers that Julien’s first two wives died in strange circumstances and that Julien received substantial life-insurance payouts. With Julien urgently needing three million francs to save his zoo from bankruptcy, Paul fears Barbara may be in danger and follows the couple to Morocco to protect her.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
While preparing an article for the Daily Mirror about marriage in France, Barbara Penning, a young English journalist, poses as a client at a Paris marriage agency. There she meets Julien Duchemin, the charming owner of a zoo. She falls for him, and before long they are married. But Paul Domec, the agency’s accountant, has himself fallen madly in love with Barbara. He learns that Julien’s first two wives died in strange circumstances, each time “allowing” him to collect a substantial sum from their life insurance policies. He also discovers that Julien urgently needs to find three million francs to save his zoo from bankruptcy. Convinced that Julien is about to do away with Barbara, Paul decides to protect her and follows the couple all the way to Morocco.
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