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Bertrand Tavernier's magnificent portrait of French family life on the brink of World War I - A Sunday in the Country
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Title: A Sunday in the Country

Release Date: 11 Apr 1984

Runtime: 1h 34m

Genre: Drama, Family

Director: Little Bear, Films A2, Sara Films

Production Companies: Little Bear, Films A2, Sara Films

Overview: In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.

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Cast

  • Iréne: Sabine Azéma
  • Monsieur Ladmiral: Louis Ducreux
  • Gonzague: Michel Aumont
  • Mercedes: Monique Chaumette
  • Marie-Thérèse: Geneviève Mnich
  • Emile: Thomas Duval
  • Lucien: Quentin Ogier
  • Mireille: Katia Wostrikoff
  • Madame Ladmiral: Claude Winter
  • le pêcheur: Jean-Roger Milo
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