Assumpta Serna
Assumpta Serna is a Spanish actress. She is known for her roles in I, the Worst of All, portraying famous Mexican religious scholar Sor Juana, Nostradamus, The Craft, and Wild Orchid, although she may be most remembered for her role as Peninsular War guerrilla commander Teresa Moreno in the first four of the ITV Richard Sharpe series. Serna was born as Assumpta Rodés Serna in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). She married her co-star in Sharpe's Company, Scott Cleverdon. She has also appeared in the 2003 ITV television drama on King Henry VIII as Catherine of Aragon, and the Spanish TV series Aquí no hay quien viva. She has written two books on acting technique, Screenacting and Monologues in VO, and currently teaches courses Acting for Camera, Directing Actors and The Script and the Actor at various acting schools and workshops. She has also served as president of AISGE (Actores e Intérpretes - Sociedad de Gestión de España), Spain's principal actors' union. She is fluent in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan and Spanish.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.188 |
| Birthday | 1957-09-16 |
| Place of Birth | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Also Known As | Ada Rodier, Assumpta Rodes, María Asunción Rodés Serna, |
1989
Wild Orchid
5.2/278
A woman lawyer becomes mesmerized by a self-made millionaire during an encounter in Rio setting off a series of erotic encounters.
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Wild Orchid
1986
Matador
6.6/248
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
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Matador
1996
The Craft
6.8/1893
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rival...
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The Craft
2009
Uncertainty
5.505/105
Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parallel destinies? Bobby and Kate are a young New York...
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Uncertainty
2005
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
6.1/30
Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale.
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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
1999
Why Not Me?
5.8/21
Four gay French expatriots share a business in Barcelona. When they and their parents are thrown together for a "coming out" party, another French Far...
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Why Not Me?
2000
Bullfighter
3/6
Jack is a wanderer whose aimless roaming leads him to a number of interesting locations and into the company of many interesting people, and despite h...
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Bullfighter
2007
I Vicerè
6/33
In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its wan...
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I Vicerè
1992
The Fencing Master
6.2/18
A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is fasci...
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The Fencing Master
2023
The Servant
4/3
Domestic service worker Lera is accused of a crime. In a cell in the premises of a Civil Guard barracks, she meets Mihaela and Julia, two prostitutes...
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The Servant
1994
Nostradamus
5.7/68
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, afte...
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Nostradamus
1993
Sharpe's Eagle
7.1/33
Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the Sou...
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Sharpe's Eagle
1993
Sharpe's Rifles
6.6/47
During the Peninsular War in Spain against the French, Sergeant Richard Sharpe saves the life of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington and i...
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Sharpe's Rifles
1995
The Shooter
4.87/53
A CIA agent gets caught up in political intrigue after he gets brought in to solve the murder of a Cuban ambassador.
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The Shooter
1994
Sharpe's Company
6.8/31
Spain 1812 The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman revenge himself on Sharp...
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Sharpe's Company
1996
Managua
4.3/7
When a fellow Vietnam veteran is alleged to have thrown his lot in with the cocaine cartels, special commando Paul Gleason is dispatched to Nicaragua...
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Managua
1994
Sharpe's Enemy
6.9/29
Portugal 1813. A band of deserters, including Sharpe's old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high-ranking English o...
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Sharpe's Enemy
1994
Belle al bar
5.1/10
During a marriage crisis, unhappy Leo has to go to another town for work. There he meets his long-lost cousin Giulio, who has become... Giulia, a very...
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Belle al bar
1986
Lola
5.3/9
Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario. To get away from him, Lola moved to Barcelona. There...
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Lola
2022
Petra de San José
2/1
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Petra de San José
1990
I, the Worst of All
5.6/15
Assumpta Serna stars as the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz in this magnificent portrayal of 17th Century Mexico. In order t...
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I, the Worst of All
1986
Lulú de noche
3.7/7
German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While lookin...
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Lulú de noche
2001
Germanes de sang
0/0
Marga, a well-known television presenter, organizes a dinner with old friends from boarding school to which he has not seen for 30 years. But the meet...
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Germanes de sang
1991
Rossini! Rossini!
6.5/4
An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed...
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Rossini! Rossini!
1984
Bajo en nicotina
3.2/5
A film buff can't watch his videos in peace as he is disturbed by his clingy girlfriend and noisy neighbours. He will take drastic measures to get the...
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Bajo en nicotina
1996
Like a Bolt of Lightning
5.7/6
Miguel Hermoso's Like Lightning offers a fresh take on a familiar scenario, the teenaged boy searching for his unknown father. Pablo is a typical teen...
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Like a Bolt of Lightning
1994
Shortcut to Paradise
5/4
Quinn shows up at an apartment building in Paradise, a small backwoods community in Puerto Rico, purporting to be the new caretaker the owner has been...
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Shortcut to Paradise
1981
Vecinos
5/1
Luis and Aurora live in the outskirts of Madrid, his life is quiet and peaceful until it reaches Antonio, her new neighbor. Luis says that neighbors a...
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Vecinos
1984
The Secret Garden
5/7
A few days ago, Lucia (Assumpta Serna) receives anonymous letters in which he is forced to perform certain actions that she accepts without question....
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The Secret Garden
1993
Henry's Romance
5.5/4
It is carnival time in Munich and participants are overindulging in alcohol and sensual pleasures. "Follow us into madness" beckons Lys who is drunk o...
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Henry's Romance
2012
Atrapats
0/0
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Atrapats
1986
Crónica sentimental en rojo
5.2/5
Veteran Inspector Méndez investigates the death of a woman found on a tourist beach.
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Crónica sentimental en rojo
1983
Soldados de plomo
3/2
Andrew returns to his hometown after a long absence. His father was a military high society who abandoned his wife to join the mother of Andrew, one c...
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Soldados de plomo
1988
The Wrath of a God
4.7/6
On the beach lies the body of Claudio O'Riley, heir to a monopoly shrimp, and his voice recounts his rise to power: the incestuous relationship with h...
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The Wrath of a God
1998
Subjúdice
5/1
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Subjúdice
1985
Beyond the Walls
5.1/8
This 1985 Spanish film reveals one of the many terrible aspects of 16th century Spain, still plagued by the radical Christian Inquisition, one of a pl...
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Beyond the Walls
1987
Ballad of Dog Beach
6.1/10
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after h...
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Ballad of Dog Beach
1983
Hunting Ground
5.7/15
A female lawyer passionately defends criminals, believing that everyone deserves a second chance. But her latest defendants have no qualms about makin...
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Hunting Ground
1994
Day of Reckoning
0/0
Action-adventure following a onetime Special Forces Captain in Vietnam turned tour guide in remote parts of Asia, who, while on a trek with two resear...
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Day of Reckoning
2019
El método
0/0
An aspiring actor, Juan Luis, suffers an incalculable pain by becoming the laughing stock of his class due to the close relationship he has with his m...
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El método
1992
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
5/1
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to...
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Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
1987
La Brute
5/2
Jacques Vauthier, a blind, deaf and mute writer is accused of a crime he quickly confesses to having committed. Jacques refuses to explain himself to...
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La Brute
1982
Sweet Hours
5.8/10
Juan Sahagún, since childhood, feels passion for his mother. One day in the street he sees a woman identical to her. He follows her and finds out that...
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Sweet Hours
1988
The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
0/0
Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide...
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
1986
The Young Girl and Hell
3.5/2
Erotic drama from France featuring beautiful Florence Guerin as a teenager who is switched in by a writer her mom allow us to move around in with them...
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The Young Girl and Hell
1997
Sharpe: The Legend
6/4
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer...
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Sharpe: The Legend
1978
L’orgia
4/4
A group of boys and girls are locked up a weekend in a friends house in which they do a party that little to little is converted in an orgy. But not e...
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L’orgia
1979
Magic Powder
5/5
Arturo and Paco arrives at a castle where Paco is going to marry Sulfurina, who turns out to be a witch.
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Magic Powder
2016
The Fresco Fiasco
0/0
Documentary about Cecilia Gimenez, the Spanish lady who ruined a fresco of Jesus but in turn restored her home town.
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The Fresco Fiasco
1979
Catalan Cuckold
4.9/4
Comedy about a marriage guidance counselor whose own marriage is on the rocks.
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Catalan Cuckold
1987
The Hidden Truth
0/0
After a long and turbulent time in America at the beginning of the century, Adrian Massaguer returns to his birthplace on the Mediterranean coast, bec...
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The Hidden Truth
1991
The Neon Man
0/0
A poor man who scrapes by installing neon advertisements gets a better-paying offer from a pair of journalists who simply want him to receive a packag...
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The Neon Man
2013
Love Crisis
5/1
During one night at the end of the summer, in a random plaza in the centre of Madrid there is room for anything to happen - even turtles.
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Love Crisis
2017
The Network of Freedom
6/3
France, beginning of World War II. Hélène Studler is a nun who has been dedicated to the care of orphans and the abandoned people. But the times have...
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The Network of Freedom
2009
Un si beau voyage
0/0
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Un si beau voyage
1998
Stolen Moments
0/0
1947, in Patagonia, in a little village on the seaside. An abandoned house on the beach shelters Letty's dreams, her loneliness that only Miguel, a ve...
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Stolen Moments
2016
Behold the Monkey
6/1
A modern fairytale based on the true story of an elderly Spanish cleaner's infamous attempt to restore a fresco.
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Behold the Monkey
2003
Le intermittenze del cuore
6/1
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Le intermittenze del cuore
1992
La nuit de l'océan
0/0
After the disappearance at sea of a young fisherman, his childhood friend and his mother begin an ambiguous relationship.
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La nuit de l'océan
1992
Chain of Desire
4.4/8
A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire.
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Chain of Desire
2003
Teresa, Teresa
0/0
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Teresa, Teresa
2018
Bernarda
6/1
Bernarda is a loose adaptation of the play La casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca . Five women are kidnapped and locked in a strange factor...
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Bernarda
2018
¡He matado a mi marido!
5.4/4
A desperate woman accidentally murders her unfaithful husband the morning of a big party honoring his recent Pritzker Prize, now she must survive the...
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¡He matado a mi marido!
1989
Valentina
4.8/2
Italian erotic thriller television series that originally aired on Italia 1 from September 29 to December 22, 1989. It is based on the Valentina comic...
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Valentina
1979
7 cabalgan hacia la muerte
10/1
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7 cabalgan hacia la muerte
1983
Circle of Passions
3/2
An aristocratic Sicilian family living in the 1950s. Count Villafratti has sex one night with his nymphomaniac daughter because he thinks she is his w...
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Circle of Passions
2021
Slaves and Kings
2/2
The compelling story of Saint Anthony Mary Claret, a Spanish Roman Catholic Archbishop, writer and publisher, missionary, and confessor to Queen Isabe...
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Slaves and Kings
2020
Expansivas
5/3
Two sisters marked by their mother’s murder years before find the murder weapon and the clues that lead her to the perpetrator.
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Expansivas
1995
Les Derniers Jours de la victime
0/0
Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal.
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Les Derniers Jours de la victime
2019
El Cepa Returns
2/1
Forty years later, Guillermo Montesinos, the actor who played José María el Cepa in The Cuenca Crime (1980), directed by Pilar Miró, returns to the va...
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El Cepa Returns
1993
Havanera 1820
2/1
The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that...
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Havanera 1820
1992
Revolver
0/0
Nick Suster, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassin's bullet, sets out to track down his assailant and in the process, uncovers a major...
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Revolver
1981
The Crime of Cuenca
6.8/30
Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused...
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The Crime of Cuenca
1980
Pepi, Luci, Bom
6.4/171
After a young heiress is assaulted by a policeman, she seeks revenge by befriending the policeman’s mousy wife and introducing her to her circle of ou...
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Pepi, Luci, Bom
1981
National Heritage
7/25
After the death of General Franco, the Leguineche family leaves their estate of Los Tejadillos, where they have remained for decades in voluntary exil...
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National Heritage
1983
Pájaros de ciudad
5/1
After committing a murder, an ordinary man escapes from the police with the help of his ex-wife. A vigilante state will not allow them to relive their...
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Pájaros de ciudad
1981
Dos y dos, cinco
5/2
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Dos y dos, cinco
1981
La cripta
5.3/3
A patient is released from a mental hospital to help the police find a student who disappeared a few days ago.
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La cripta
1982
La rebelión de los pájaros
0/0
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La rebelión de los pájaros
1985
La vieja música
5/3
The new coach of the basketball team of Lugo arrives from Uruguay. He really knows nothing about training a basketball team so he keeps the previous c...
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La vieja música
1987
Lucky Ravi
0/0
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Lucky Ravi
1988
Qui t’estima, Babel?
0/0
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Qui t’estima, Babel?
1992
À quoi tu penses-tu ?
10/1
Because he only thinks about Karine, the wife of his best friend André, Pierre, a writer, can no longer write. The situation is all the more complex a...
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À quoi tu penses-tu ?
1992
Adelaide
0/0
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Adelaide
1995
One Hundred and One Nights
6.2/48
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all...
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One Hundred and One Nights
1996
Puro veneno
0/0
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Puro veneno
1997
Kiss & Tell
1/1
A performance artist turns up dead with a carrot up her butt by LAX. Three detectives interview her friends to find out who killed her and why.
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Kiss & Tell
2001
The Journeyman
5/1
In the Wild West at the turn of the century, two young brothers watch as their Grandpa is gunned down in cold blood. The desperados kidnap the older b...
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The Journeyman
2009
El asesino a sueldo
0/0
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El asesino a sueldo
2001
Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
5.5/2
Victim of a rape, Nadia Coupeau decides to keep the child despite her precarious personal situation. But her child is soon taken away from her and pla...
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Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
1990
The Day of Reckoning
0/0
A young man begins to have terrifying nightmares after visiting his obsessive uncle's automated chicken farm.
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