Marthe (1997)
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.
Drama, Romance, War
Cast
- Clotilde Courau — Marthe
- Guillaume Depardieu — Simon
- Bernard Giraudeau — le colonel
- Thérèse Liotard — Rose Bireau
- Gérard Jugnot — Henri
- Serge Riaboukine — Lucien
- Romuald Groult — le bleu
- Loïc Corbery — Pierrot
- Mathias Jung — Gauthier
- Cerise Leclerc — la sœur de Pauline
- Bruno Slagmulder — Martin
- Hervé Breuil — un soldat
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