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16 February 1983 (France) more
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After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident. | add synopsis
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1 nomination more
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Irish nadir. more (8 total)

Cast

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Nathalie Baye ... Helene
Francis Huster ... Pierre
Richard Bohringer ... Frank
Madeleine Robinson ... Mrs. Meyrand
Guy Tréjan ... Mathieu Meyrand
Victoria Abril ... Fifo
Véronique Genest ... Patricia Meyrand
Maurice Jacquemont ... Attorney
Solenn Jarniou ... Nelly
André Thorent
Humbert Balsan ... Bertrand Meyrand
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Jean-Henri Chambois ... Le médecin de famille
Arlette Gilbert ... La sage-femme
Christine Paolini ... L'infirmière
Marcel Roche ... Pessac
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Also Known As:
I Married a Dead Man
I Married a Shadow
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USA:110 min
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Remade as Mrs. Winterbourne (1996) more

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Irish nadir., 10 September 2001
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Author: dbdumonteil

This one may be the worst of all Irish's (Cornell Woolrich's) adaptation for the screen.Not because they have transposed the action from California to the vineyards of Bordeaux,but because they totally betrayed the novel.Robin Davis ,a thoroughly faceless director, could not render Irish's doomed atmosphere to the slightest extent.The dialogue is mean,poor,repetitive,Richard Boringer,the villain,is reduced to repeat almost the same lines three times.The conclusion becomes an happy end,forgetting the terrible final lines of the novel,something like:"We've lost.That's all I know.We've lost.And now the game is over." Irish's tragic tale of fatality is turned into a soap opera .Natalie Baye could have been the character,had she found the adequate team. The only comedian on the screen who generates some emotion is veteran Madeleine Robinson.This was a blockbuster in France,but ,alas, almost nobody read the book.Do it,and avoid this bland movie.

NB :A new adaptation ,"Mrs Winterbourne" (1996) ,is worse.The best,by far ,is Mitchell Leisen's "No man of her own" starring Barbara Stanwyck.

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