Vanishing Fiancee ( La Chambre verte ) ( The Green Room (The Vanishing Fiancée) )

Vanishing Fiancee (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: La Chambre verte
Alternate Title: The Green Room (The Vanishing Fiancée)
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Ceasar Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Mono )
German ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1978 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
François Truffaut

Written By:
Jean Gruault
Henry James

Actors:
François Truffaut ..... Julien Davenne
Nathalie Baye ..... Cecilia Mandel
Jean Dasté ..... Bernard Humbert
Patrick Maléon ..... Georges
Jeanne Lobre ..... Mme Rambaud (as Jane Lobre)
Antoine Vitez ..... Bishop's secretary
Jean-Pierre Moulin ..... Gerard Mazet
Serge Rousseau ..... Paul Masigny
Jean-Pierre Ducos ..... Priest in the mortuary room
Annie Miller ..... Genevieve Mazet
Nathan Miller ..... Genevieve Mazet's son
Marie Jaoul ..... Yvonne Mazet
Monique Dury ..... Monique
Laurence Ragon ..... Julie Davenne
Marcel Berbert ..... Dr. Jardine

Synopsis:

Eleven years after the end of World War I, in a small village in the East of France, the journalist Julien Davenne still grieves the death of his beloved wife Julie ten years ago. He worships Julie in a green room in his house decorated with her pictures and belongings. When he meets auctioneer's assistant Cecilia Mandel in an auction house, they see that they have in common the obsession for death and become close to each other. When a fire destroys his green room, Julien convinces the bishop to restore the local chapel and prepare it as a sanctuary for Julie and his dead friends to preserve their memories, while Cecilia falls in love for him, but Julien is dead inside.

The Green Room (French: La chambre verte) is a 1978 French film directed by François Truffaut and based on the Henry James short story "The Altar of the Dead", in which a man becomes obsessed with the many dead people in his life and builds a memorial to honor them. It is also based on two other short stories by Henry James: "The Beast in the Jungle" and "The Way It Came".

A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a decade ago. He gathered in the green room all Julie's objects. When a fire destroys the room, he renovates a little chapel and devotes it to Julie and his other dead persons.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 03 March, 2014.

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