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Which novel provided the story for Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse?
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Otto Preminger
Film director Otto Preminger, 1976.
Otto Preminger's 1958 film Bonjour Tristesse was based on the best-selling novel of the same name by the French author Françoise Sagan. Published in 1954, the book tells the story of a sophisticated 17-year-old girl who interferes in her father's romantic life, resulting in tragic consequences.12