Walking a Tightrope

Walking a Tightrope

Walking a Tightrope

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1991•120 min•FR

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A famous, ruthless writer takes a handsome young worker, with aspirations of becoming a tightrope artist, as his lover and protege, but suffers tragic consequences when he later discards him for another youth.

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