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User Rating:
7.7/10   197 votes
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Director:
Peter Watkins
Writers:
Agathe Bluysen (writer)
Peter Watkins (writer)
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Release Date:
7 November 2007 (France) more
Genre:
Drama | History | War more
Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
L.A. Film Critics Pick Brokeback Mountain
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Cast

  (Credited cast)
Eliane Annie Adalto ... Laundress
Pierre Barbieux ... Child in Cour Popincourt
Bernard Bombeau ... Baker
Maylis Bouffartigue ... Marie-Louise Théron
Geneviève Capy ... Doctor's wife
Anne Carlier ... Laundress
Véronique Couzon ... Marie-Louise Beauger
Piotr Daskiewicz ... Polish Officer
Nicole Defer ... Owner of dressmaking workshop & laundry
Patrick Dell'Isola ... Emile Léonard Morterol
Caroline Esnard-Benoit ... Baker's wife
Roland Fontaine ... Child in Cour Popincourt
Przermyslaw Galkiewicz ... Polish Officer
Jean-Michel Gallois ... Concièrge
Joachim Gatti ... Joachim Rivière
Jean Giacinti ... Adolphe Thiers
Virginie Guibbaud ... Léontine Rombert
Armelle Hounkanin ... Françoise Boidard
Catherine Humbert ... Marguerite Lachaise, cantinière of 66th Battalion, National Guard
Steve Kreisler ... Wickham Hoffmann (US Attaché)
Lucette Labreuil ... Owner of Café Watrin
Michel Labreuil ... Proprietor of Café Watrin
Rémy Le Champion ... Policeman
Jean Legal ... Doctor
Elisabeth Lemaitre ... Pawnbroker
Gaston Lepage ... Child in Cour Popincourt
Manon Lepage ... Child in Cour Popincourt
Micheline Letourneur ... Laundress
Béatrice Mandelbrot ... Laundress
Elsy Mandelbrot ... Convent school pupil
Leila Mandelbrot ... Child in Cour Popincourt
Tilly Mandelbrot ... Child in Cour Popincourt
Samy Nogaro ... Émile Théron
Laurent Parisi ... Policeman
Aurélia Petit ... Blanche Capellier
Flora Pierre ... Laundress (as M B 'Flora' Pierre)
Marek Przbyla ... Polish Officer
Prune Sauvageot ... Child in Cour Popincourt
Pascal Schiltz ... Sailor
Dirk Sikorski ... Anatole Cordier, 66ème
Zinedine Vergnaud ... Child in Cour Popincourt
Gérard Watkins ... Gérard Bourlet
Philippe Welsh ... Le père
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Additional Details

Runtime:
345 min | Germany:300 min | 220 min (theatrical version)
Country:
France
Language:
French
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Company:
13 Productions more

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Movie Connections:
Featured in The Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins (2001) more

FAQ

The fact that the movie includes the depiction of media technology inexistent during the period of the Commune marginalizes it's value as a docudrama hoping to recreate accurately these events of 19nth century French history
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13 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
Absolutely..., 29 July 2003
10/10
Author: Jim Greer from Canada

...the most effective film I have ever seen for prompting the viewer to become involved in the film itself. The "actors" are not actors and they talk about real things; they are not even improvising. They address concerns both of today and of the time in which they are play-acting (1871). With anachronisms such as the bourgeois versus the Commune ongoing television coverage, the film suggest that not much has changed. Like watching CNN for a breaking news story, La Commune gives the viewer a real-time feel and a sense of the complexity of each moment (though I suppose CNN doesn't really do that). The interspersed white-on-black historical text grounds the emotion in historical fact without undermining the emotional accessibility. A thrilling experience.

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