Corrected entry: Riton makes some money as a Coca Cola-style Santa Claus, but this figure was created in 1931, that is one year later as the film is set, and still needed many years to make its way into France. (01:37:00)
Les Enfants du Marais (1999)
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Directed by: Jean Becker
Starring: Andre Dussollier, Jacques Villeret, Jacques Gamblin, Michel Serrault
Revealing mistake: Garriss compliments Marie on her new hair dye, but she is obviously wearing a blonde wig. (01:20:30)
Amédée: Being free, in short, is not doing nothing, but being the sole decider of what to do or what not to do.
Correction: This is one of those Internet lies that Coca-Cola invented Santa Claus as we know him today. The bearded, jolly fat man in a red suit existed long before that. The 1823 poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas", with illustration, demonstrates this, also Harper's Weekly magazine ran a series of engravings by Thomas Nast between 1863 and 1886 which depicted him very much like the "modern" Santa.
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