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MEMOIR OF WAR

LA DOULEUR

By Emmanuel FINKIEL

Drama - Completed 2017

1944 Paris. When her husband is arrested by the Gestapo, then deported, Marguerite suffers the long and silent agony of waiting for his return.

San Sebastian FF 2017

Official selection

RDV Unifrance 2018

COLCOA 2018

West Coast Premiere

- Year of production
- 2017
- Genres
- Drama, Historical
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Duration
- 125 mn
- Director(s)
- Emmanuel FINKIEL
- Cast
- Mélanie THIERRY, Benoit MAGIMEL, Benjamin BIOLAY, Shulamit ADAR, Grégoire LEPRINCE-RINGUET, Emmanuel BOURDIEU
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-5EBE-0000-F-0000-0000-T
- Producer(s)
- Nathalie VALLET (Les Films du Poisson)
- Synopsis
- When she finds two old notebooks in a forgotten box, Marguerite Duras remembers her past and the unbearable pain of waiting.
  
  In the 1944 Nazi-occupied France, young talented writer Marguerite is an active Resistance member with her husband Robert Antelme. When he is deported by the Gestapo, she dives into a desperate struggle to get him back. She develops a chilling relationship with local Vichy collaborator Rabier and takes terrible risks to save Robert, playing a cat-and-mouse of unpredictable meetings all over Paris. Does he really want to help her? Or is he trying to dig up information about the anti-Nazi underground? Then comes the end of the war and the return of camp victims, an excruciating period for her, a long and silent agony after the chaos of the Liberation of Paris. But she continues to wait, bound to the torment of absence even beyond hope and love.