Hiroshima mon amour

Duration: 1:28:00

Genre: Drama | Romance

Year Published: 1959

Creator: Argos Films | Como Films | Festival Films | National Cinema Service: Publisher | Zenith International Film Corp

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: The love affair between a French actress and a Japanese architect, with flashbacks of an affair between the girl and a German World War II soldier, illuminates ideas of war and peace, madness and sanity, love and death. Produced by Samy Halfon. Stars Emmanuele Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barband. Directed by Alain Resnais. French with English subtitles., During a love affair between a French actress and a Japanese architect, the actress recalls a traumatic relationship she had with a German soldier during World War II. Concerns the need to remember Hiroshima and still live in the present. In French, with English subtitles.

Complete Record: , Presents the story of an ill-fated romance between a French actress working in Hiroshima on an anti-war film and a Japanese architect. Contains free use of sound and picture, music and narration, time and memory, and juxtaposition and integration of past and present. Explains how the memories of her affair with a German soldier during the occupation of France and his memories of the atomic holocaust doom their love affair. Directed by Alain Resnais. French with English Subtitles., , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.