La Douleur

Memoir of Pain
Director
Emmanuel Finkiel
Country
France, Belgium, Switzerland
Year
2017
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Emmanuel Finkiel
Cast
Mélanie Thierry, Benoît Magimel, Elsa Amiel, Brett Gillen, Grégoire Gros, Christine Riviere-Anissa, Myriam Riviere-Anissa, Benjamin Biolay, Emmanuel Bourdieu
Production
Les Films du Poisson, Cinéfrance

Storyline

June 1944, France is still under the German Occupation. The writer Robert Antelme, major figure of the Resistance, is arrested and deported. His young wife, Marguerite, writer and resistant, was torn by the anguish of not having her news and her secret liaison with her comrade Dyonis. She met a French agent of the Gestapo, Rabier, and, ready to do anything to find her husband, tested an ambiguous relationship with this troubled man, only to be able to help him.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Vilnius International Film Festival 2018
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2017
Competition

César 2019
8 Nominations:
Best Actress (Mélanie Thierry)
Best Adapted Script (Emmanuel Finkiel)
Best Sound (Antoine-Basile Mercier, David Vranken, Aline Gavroy)
Best Photography (Alexis Kavyrchine)
Best Costumes (Anaïs Romand, Sergio Ballo)
Best Decorations (Pascal Le Guellec)
Best Direction (Emmanuel Finkiel)
Best Film

Releases

Spain (8 of June 2018)