HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR

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• Release Year: 1959
• Genre: Drama, Romance, War
• Plot: A cornerstone film of the French New Wave, Alain Resnais' first feature is one of the most influential films of all time. A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief, intense affair in postwar Hiroshima, their consuming fascination impelling them to exorcise their own scarred memories of love and suffering. Utilizing an innovative flashback structure and an Academy Award®-nominated screenplay by novelist Marguerite Duras, Resnais delicately weaves past and present, personal pain and public anguish, in this moody masterwork.
• Cast: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson, Moira Lister, Alain Resnais, Marguerite Duras, Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon, Sacha Kamenka, Takeo Shirakawa, Sacha Vierny, Michio Takahashi, Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney, Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco, Pierre-Louis Calvet, René Renault, Minoru Esaka, Mayo, Petri
• Director: Alain Resnais
• Runtime: 1:30
• Company: Argos films, Como Films, Daiei Motion Picture Company
• Media Format: Movie