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A PROMISE

UNE PROMESSE

By Patrice LECONTE

COMSTOCK GROUP - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, JAPAN

Drama - Completed 2013

Germany, 1912. A married woman promises her young lover she will wait for him. 8 years later, the exile returns home. Has their love survived?

Festivals
& Awards

La Biennale di Venezia - Venice FF 2013

Out of Competition

Toronto - TIFF 2013

Special Presentations

Fest. Européen des Arcs 2013

Avant-premiere

RDV Unifrance 2014

Beijing IFF 2014

Competition

- Year of production
- 2013
- Genres
- Drama, Historical, Romance
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 94 mn
- Director(s)
- Patrice LECONTE
- Writer(s)
- Jérôme TONNERRE, Patrice LECONTE
- Cast
- Alan RICKMAN, Rebecca HALL, Richard MADDEN
- ISAN
- 0000-0003-F355-0000-M-0000-0000-8
- EIDR
- 10.5240/E1E9-C040-8CA9-DF7D-371F-9
- Producer(s)
- Marc MISSONNIER (FIDELITE FILMS), Olivier DELBOSC (FIDELITE FILMS)
- Synopsis
- Germany, 1912. A graduate of humble origins takes up a clerical post in a steel factory. Impressed by his work, the elderly owner takes him on as his private secretary. His health declining, the owner is confined to his home, where the young man moves to continue his work.
  There he meets the owner’s wife, a much younger woman, beautiful and reserved.
  As time passes the young man falls passionately in love but does not dare reveal his feelings. A romantic intrigue develops in this stifling bourgeois home, all looks and silences, without a single word or gesture of love.
  When the owner announces he is sending his secretary to oversee his mines in Mexico, the wife’s stricken reaction reveals to the young man that she too has fallen secretly in love - a love she cannot express in the presence of her sick husband. She makes him a promise - when he returns in two years ' time, she will be his.
  Separated by an ocean, they exchange passionate letters while awaiting the day that will reunite them. Then, on the verge of his return to Germany, World War 1 erupts. All maritime travel between South America and Europe is suspended…
  Eight years later, with millions dead and Europe in ruins, the exile returns, to his homeland and to the woman he hopes has been waiting for him. But has their love survived the brutal passage of time?

A PROMISE

UNE PROMESSE

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