LIFE AND NOTHING BUT (VERSION FRANAISE) [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1989
• Genre: Drama, Foreign, War
• Plot: Deemed a « masterpiece » by critic David Thomson, « Life and Nothing But » is one of director Bertrand Tavernier’s most ambitious films. With this gorgeously photographed anti-war epic, Tavernier examines the emotional hurdles that separate rich from poor, men from women, history from truth and regret from hope.; A year after WWI has ended, cynical major Dellaplane has the difficult task of identifying and interring thousands of fallen French soldiers anonymously languish in field hospitals and littering the vast Verdun battlefield. Deplane has also become reluctant shepherd to an ad hoc society grown around the legions of widowed wives and mothers combing the French countryside for word of their loved ones. When a buried hospital train yields a fresh source of possibly recognizable bodies, Irene, a haughty Parisian aristocrat and Alice, a hopeful young schoolteacher, form an unlikely alliance with the Major. As the train’s surprising cargo is revealed, the three searchers must choose between life in a post-war world stripped of illusions or the seductive self-imprisonment of bitterness and mourning for days, lives and loves gone by.; Tavernier regular Noiret won a French César for his performance opposite the « ravishingly gifted actress » Sabine Azéma as Irène. In courageously and gracefully celebrating inexhaustible human resilience and burgeoning romance amidst unspeakable appalling loss, « Life and Nothing But conveys both the fragile and the indestructible » (The New York Times).
• Cast: Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Pascale Vignal, Maurice Barrier, François Perrot, Jean-Pol Dubois, Michel Duchaussoy, Arlette Gilbert, Louis Lyonnet, Charlotte Maury-Sentier, François Caron, Thierry Gimenez, Frédérique Meininger, Pierre Trabaud, Jean-Roger Milo, Catherine Verlor, Jean-Christophe Lebert, Bruno Therasse, Philippe Uchan, Marion Loran, Charlotte Kady, Gabriel Cattand, Christophe Odent, Christian Magnan, Jean Champion, Philippe Deplanche, Michel Cassagne, Frédéric Pierrot, François Domange, Jean-Paul Comart, Patrick Massieu, Didier Harlmann, Pascal Elso, Odile Cointepas, Louba Guertchikoff, Jean-Claude Calon, Jean-Yves Gautier, Gilles Janeyrand, Nicolas Tronc, Jerome Frossard, Michèle Gleizer, Daniel Langlet, Adrienne Bonnet, Marcel Zanini, Marc Perrone, Georges Staquet, Alain Frérot, François Dyrek, Micky Baker, Sancoma Everett, Bobby Few, Steve Potts, Mike Zwerin, Bruno Raffaelli, Eric Dufay, Bertrand Tavernier, Bruno de Keyzer, Oswald d'Andrea
• Director: Bertrand Tavernier
• Runtime: 2:15
• Company: Kino Video
• Media Format: Movie