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Marthe

Marthe

Original title
Marthe ou La Promesse du Jour
Year
1997
Gender
Drama , Romance , War
Director
Jean-Loup Hubert
Country
France
Details
121 minutes / colored / sound

This Great War drama opens in the trenches during an artillery bombardment. Receiving bayonet wounds, young Simon (Guillaume Depardieu) drops out of the action, joining other injured soldiers at a Brittany hospital. One day he meets schoolteacher Marthe (Clotilde Courau), who lives in the household of the hospital's head doctor (Bernard Giraudeau). Soon a romance begins to develop. Cinematography by Kevin Jewison, son of director Norman Jewison.

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