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Adaptations
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form
y
Golden Braid
( dir. Paul Cox
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Australia
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Illumination Films
,
1990
Z461496
1990
single work
film/TV
fantasy
romance
Based on Guy de Maupassant's short story 'La Chevelure.'
An eccentric clock collector finds a braid of golden hair in one of his clocks. He becomes obsessed with the woman to whom he imagines the hair belonged and a fantasy of a love affair from times past, soon beginning an affair of his own with a Salvation Army major's wife.
Notes
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'La Chevelure' is included in AustLit because of an Australian-written adaptation.
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