Le retour de Martin Guerre (1982)
(The Return of Martin Guerre)
Country: FR
Technical: col 123m
Director: Daniel Vigne
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Synopsis:
A soldier returns to his medieval French village many years after leaving to fight in the wars. The villagers suspect he is an impostor in spite of his uncanny knowledge of all he should know. And his wife?
Review:
This highly successful film can be read on different levels, as a simple mystery with a solution, or as a comment on human priorities. Put another way, if you were living in 16th century rural France in the middle of the wars of religion, would you place nobility above comfort and security? Remade as Sommersby (1993).
(The Return of Martin Guerre)
Country: FR
Technical: col 123m
Director: Daniel Vigne
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Synopsis:
A soldier returns to his medieval French village many years after leaving to fight in the wars. The villagers suspect he is an impostor in spite of his uncanny knowledge of all he should know. And his wife?
Review:
This highly successful film can be read on different levels, as a simple mystery with a solution, or as a comment on human priorities. Put another way, if you were living in 16th century rural France in the middle of the wars of religion, would you place nobility above comfort and security? Remade as Sommersby (1993).
(The Return of Martin Guerre)
Country: FR
Technical: col 123m
Director: Daniel Vigne
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Synopsis:
A soldier returns to his medieval French village many years after leaving to fight in the wars. The villagers suspect he is an impostor in spite of his uncanny knowledge of all he should know. And his wife?
Review:
This highly successful film can be read on different levels, as a simple mystery with a solution, or as a comment on human priorities. Put another way, if you were living in 16th century rural France in the middle of the wars of religion, would you place nobility above comfort and security? Remade as Sommersby (1993).