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THE CRYSTAL BOOK

LIVRE DE CRISTAL, LE

By Patricia PLATTNER

CINÉMATHÈQUE SUISSE / SWISS FILM ARCHIVE - as DISTR Theatrical, SWITZERLAND / PROMO

Drama - Completed 1994

- Year of production
- 1994
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- FRANCE, PORTUGAL, SWITZERLAND
- Director(s)
- Patricia PLATTNER
- Cast
- Valeria BRUNI TEDESCHI, Jean-François BALMER
- Synopsis
- JB (John Billeter), an orientalist of international renown, has agreed to return to Sri-Lanka at UNESCO’s request to decipher the “Crystal Book”, a treaty on the nature of memory dictated by Buddha in his last years. This book represents a challenge to JB and his past, overshadowed by his wife’s suicide. He had met her in Sri-Lanka, a place where love met with tragedy.