Monsieur Vincent
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Monsieur Vincent is a 1947 French film about Vincent de Paul, the seventeenth century priest and charity worker. It depicts his struggle to help the poor in the face of obstacles such as the Black Death.
In 1949 it won an honorary Academy Award as the best foreign language film released in the United States in 1948.
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