Overview

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.

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Cast

Clotilde Courau

Guillaume Depardieu

Bernard Giraudeau

Thérèse Liotard

Gérard Jugnot

Serge Riaboukine

Romuald Groult

Loïc Corbery

Mathias Jung

Cerise Leclerc