Hiroshima, My Love ( Hiroshima mon amour )

Hiroshima, My Love (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Hiroshima mon amour
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 2.4 )

Running Time:
86 min + 50 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Short Film
Trailer(s)
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1959 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Alain Resnais

Written By:
Marguerite Duras

Actors:
Emmanuelle Riva ..... Elle
Eiji Okada ..... Lui
Stella Dassas ..... Mother
Pierre Barbaud ..... Father
Bernard Fresson ..... German Lover

Synopsis:

While shooting an international movie about peace in Hiroshima, a married French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) has a torrid one night stand with a married Japanese architect (Eiji Okada). They feel a deep passion for each other and she discloses her first love in times of war in the French town of Nevers to him. He falls in love with her and asks her to stay with him in Hiroshima.

A French actress, shooting a film in the city of the title, strikes up an affair with a handsome Japanese architect, but the two of them are haunted with their respective memories of World War II: the bomb that fell on Hiroshima and the Nazi Occupation of France.

1959. A French young woman has spent the night with a japanese man, at Hiroshima where she went for the shooting of a film about peace. He reminds her of the first man she loved. It was during World War II, and he was a German soldier. The main themes of this film are memory and oblivion.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 13 May, 2008.

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