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A Very Long Engagement (27-Oct-2004)

Original Title: Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Writers: Jean-Pierre Jeunet; Guillaume Laurant

From novel by: Sébastien Japrisot

Music: Angelo Badalamenti

Producer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Keywords: Romantic Drama, WWI

A young woman searches for her fiancé following his presumed death during World War I.

ABSTRACT
Mathilde, an attractive young French woman hampered by a bad leg as a consequence of a childhood bout with polio, lives with her aunt, uncle, and fiancé Manech in a rural village. Manech, a soldier fighting with the war effort near the German front, is accused of purposely injuring himself alongside four comrades at the Battle of the Somme; his resulting death sentence stirs Mathilde into action when she receives word of his apparent demise, embarking on a relentless quest to find her true love borne out of an unwavering belief that he is still alive.

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Marion Cotillard
Actor
30-Sep-1975   Taxi
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Actor
18-Feb-1946   Delicatessen
Albert Dupontel
Actor
11-Jan-1964   Bernie
André Dussollier
Actor
17-Feb-1946   Tais-toi!
Jodie Foster
Actor
19-Nov-1962   The Silence of the Lambs
Rufus
Actor
19-Dec-1942   Train of Life
Audrey Tautou
Actor
9-Aug-1976   Amélie
Gaspard Ulliel
Actor
25-Nov-1984   A Very Long Engagement

CAST

Audrey Tautou   ...   Mathilde
Gaspard Ulliel   ...   Manech
Dominique Pinon   ...   Sylvain
Chantal Neuwirth   ...   Bénédicte
André Dussollier   ...   Pierre-Marie Rouvières
Ticky Holgado   ...   Germain Pire
Marion Cotillard   ...   Tina Lombardi
Dominique Bettenfeld   ...   Ange Bassignano
Jodie Foster   ...   Elodie Gordes
Jean-Pierre Darroussin   ...   Benjamin Gordes
Clovis Cornillac   ...   Benoît Notre-Dame
Jean-Pierre Becker   ...   Esperanza
Denis Lavant   ...   Six-Soux
Jérôme Kircher   ...   Bastoche
Albert Dupontel   ...   Célestin Poux
Jean-Paul Rouve   ...   Postman
Elina Lowensohn   ...   German Woman
Julie Depardieu   ...   Véronique Passavant
Michel Vuillermoz   ...   Petit Louis
Urbain Cancelier   ...   Priest
Maud Rayer   ...   Mme. Desrochelles
Michel Robin   ...   Old Man on Battlefield
Tcheky Karyo   ...   Capt. Favourier
Jean-Claude Dreyfus   ...   Commandant Lavrouye
Philippe Duquesne   ...   Favart
Bouli Lanners   ...   Chardolot
Stéphane Butet   ...   Philippot
Christian Pereira   ...   Records Officer
François Levantal   ...   Thouvenel
Patrick Paroux   ...   Medical Officer
Solène Le Pechon   ...   Mathilde, age 10
Virgil Leclaire   ...   Manech, age 13
Les Poilus de Montmorrillon   ...  
et la voix de
Florence Thomassin   ...   Narrator (voice)
Thierry Gibault   ...   Lt. Estrangin
Myriam Roustan   ...   La gagneuse du café
Gilles Masson   ...   Killed Officer
Sandrine Rigaud   ...   Mariette Notre-Dame
Michel Chalmeau   ...   Milly's Pastor
Marc Faure   ...   Prison Director
Rodolphe Pauly   ...   Jean Desrochelles
Xavier Maly   ...   Chardolot's Friend
Till Bahlmann   ...   German Prisoner
Tony Gaultier   ...   Gravedigger
Louis-Marie Audubert   ...   Gravedigger
Jean-Gilles Barbier   ...   Sergeant
Marc Robert   ...   Bear
Pierre Heitz   ...   Bear
Philippe Maymat   ...   Bear
Eric Debrosse   ...   Bear
Mike Gondouin   ...   Bear
Eric Fraticelli   ...   Threatening Corsican
Philippe Beautier   ...   Train Prankster
Gérald Weingand   ...   Swindled Soldier
Luc Sonzogni   ...   Swindled Soldier
Xavier Berlioz   ...   Ordinance
Frankie Pain   ...   Procurator
Marcel Philippot   ...   Bourgeois Couple
Pascale Lievyn   ...   Bourgeois Couple
Jean-Claude Lecoq   ...   German Gunner
Rufus   ...   Brit
Esther Sironneau   ...   Nurse
Stéphanie Gesnel   ...   Prostitute
Frédérique Bel   ...   Prostitute
Alexandre Caumartin   ...   Stretcher Bearer
Eric Defosse   ...   Stretcher Bearer
Gaspar Claus   ...   Stabbed German
Jean-Philippe Beche   ...   Georges Cornu
Anaïs Durand   ...   Hélène Pire

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