Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through ...
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| Emmanuelle Béart | ... | Jeanne | |
| Daniel Auteuil | ... | Louis | |
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Gabriel Barylli | ... | Mathias Behrens |
| Jean-Claude Brialy | ... | Arnoult | |
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Geneviève Casile | ... | Solange |
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Michel Etcheverry | ... | Charles |
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Laurence Masliah | ... | Helene |
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Jean-Noël Brouté | ... | Marc |
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Isabelle Guiard | ... | Mathilde |
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François Caron | ... | Andre |
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Maria Fitzi | ... | Liseul |
| Samuel Le Bihan | ... | Henri | |
| Heinz Bennent | ... | Andreas | |
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Antoine du Merle | ... | Antoine |
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Desiree Dupont | ... | Armelle |
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Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond. Written by Peter Davis <pdavis@macollamh.ucd.ie>
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Release Date:
15 March 1995 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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$15,000,000 (estimated)Gross USA:
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Régis Wargnier loves to take his characters all around the planet(see also "Indochine" or "man to man" in the pygmies land;probably because of his own childhood).He also loves Douglas Sirk :no less than two extracts of his movies are included:"battle hymn" (1957)the moral of which was rather dubious ,and the great "written on the wind " (brief extract where Dorothy Malone "dances her dad" to death )Emmanuelle even imitates the American star ,in a blood red dress.Funny,I had been thinking of Sirk before his extracts were shown ;Jeanne could be a Sirkian heroine and the screenplay is primarily a melodrama ;the genre can produce masterpieces (Sirk,Stahl,Minnelli) but it takes a lot a madness,something more than this academic directing.The movie looks like a blueprint for miniseries the episodes of which being " meeting at the station" "the soldier has come home" " lost in a devastated land" " back in Paris and daddy's gone away again" etc .All in all,the film does not equal the sum of its numerous parts .With a husband whose spouse is more the army than Emmanuelle Béart ,who could blame this "sinner" ?Best idea is the romantic ending but it's botched ! See it for the two principals ,two of the best actors of today.