Memoir of war

Memoir of war

FEATURE - completed
126 min | Period piece | 2018

Credits

Director: Emmanuel FINKIEL
Cast: Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay

Synopsis

June 1944, France is still under the German occupation. The writer and communist Robert Antelme, major figure of the Resistance, is arrested and deported. His young wife Marguerite Duras, writer and resistant, is torn by the anguish of not having news of her and her secret affair with her comrade Dyonis. She meets a French agent working at the Gestapo, Pierre Rabier, and, ready to do anything to find her husband, puts himself to the test of an ambiguous relationship with this troubled man, only to be able to help him. The end of the war and the return of the camps announce to Marguerite...

June 1944, France is still under the German occupation. The writer and communist Robert Antelme, major figure of the Resistance, is arrested and deported. His young wife Marguerite Duras, writer and resistant, is torn by the anguish of not having news of her and her secret affair with her comrade Dyonis. She meets a French agent working at the Gestapo, Pierre Rabier, and, ready to do anything to find her husband, puts himself to the test of an ambiguous relationship with this troubled man, only to be able to help him. The end of the war and the return of the camps announce to Marguerite Duras the beginning of an unbearable wait, a slow and silent agony in the midst of the chaos of the Liberation of Paris.

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Director: Emmanuel FINKIEL
Cast: Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Benjamin Biolay
Year: 2018
Producers Les Films du Poisson (FR), Versus Production (BE), Need Productions (BE)
Distribution O'Brother (BE)

General information

A COPRODUTION : VERSUS PRODUCTION, NEED PRODUCTIONS, France 3 CINEMA, PROXIMUS et SAME PLAYER

WITH THE SUPPORT OF : CENTRE NATIONAL DU CINEMA AND L’IMAGE ANIMEE, of la REGION ILE DE FRANCE, EURIMAGES and LA FONDATION CARAC

WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF : de CANAL + OCS FRANCE TELEVISIONS

IN ASSOCIATION WITH : CINEMAGE 11 SOFITVCINE 4 INVER INVEST TAX SHELTER of federal gouvernement of Belgium distribution LES FILMS DU LOSAANGE International Sales TF1 STUDIO

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Mélanie THIERRY

Mélanie THIERRY

Benoit MAGIMEL

Benoit MAGIMEL

Benjamin BIOLAY

Benjamin BIOLAY

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