Sundays & Cybele ( Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray ) ( Sundays and Cybele )

Sundays & Cybele (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray
Alternate Title: Sundays and Cybele
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Arabic ( Subtitles )
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Mono )
German ( Subtitles )
Greek ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Mono )
Italian ( Subtitles )
Portuguese ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Mono )
Spanish ( Subtitles )
Turkish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
106 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1962 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Serge Bourguignon

Written By:
Serge Bourguignon
Antoine Tudal

Actors:
Hardy Krüger ..... Pierre
Nicole Courcel ..... Madeleine
Patricia Gozzi ..... Françoise / Cybèle
Daniel Ivernel ..... Carlos
André Oumansky ..... Bernard
Anne-Marie Coffinet ..... Françoise II
René Clermont ..... Le facteur
Malka Ribowska ..... La voyante (as Malka Ribovska)
Michel de Ré ..... Fiacre
France Anglade ..... Lulu
Florence Blot ..... Le cavalier
Serge Bourguignon ..... L'employé de gare
Alain Bouvette ..... L'épicière
Renée Duchateau ..... Le père
Gilbert Edard ..... Une mère
Martine Ferrière ..... Le policier
Maurice Garrel ..... Le patron du café
Albert Hugues ..... Monique
Lisette Lebon ..... Soeur Marie des Anges
Jocelyne Loiseau ..... Soeur Opportune
Denise Péron ..... Un forain
Jacques Robiolles ..... Carmela
Bibiane Stern ..... Le peintre
Antoine Tudal

Synopsis:

Sundays and Cybele (original French title: Les Dimanches de Ville D'Avray) stars Hardy Kruger as a former bomber pilot. Emotionally shattered by a tragic wartime incident, Kruger goes into semi-seclusion in a small Parisian suburb. He is drawn out of his shell by 12-year-old orphan girl Patricia Gozzi. The nuns in charge of Patricia bless the relationship, assuming that Kruger is the girl's father. A warm, chaste friendship develops between the older man and the bright-eyed girl, culminating in their mutual decision to spend Christmas together in a nearby woods. Unfortunately, nurse Nicole Courcel, suspecting that Kruger is a pedophile, calls the police - a move that can only result in disaster for all concerned. Based on a novel by Bernard Eschasseriaux, the exquisitely photographed Sundays and Cybele won the 1962 Best Foreign Film Academy Award.

After killing a child on a routine bombing mission in Vietnam, Pierre suffers from delayed stress and partial amnesia. Returning to France, he lives like a vegetable until he meets a young girl who has been dumped by her father at a boarding school. Posing as her father, Pierre contrives to meet the girl every Sunday, to play with her and perhaps recover his memory. The innocent friendship is misread by nearly everyone, even people who know Pierre well. A classic of old French art films.

Pilot Hardy Kruger returns to France from the Indochinese War and takes up residence in a small town near Paris, where he becomes friendly with a 12-year-old girl who lives in an orphanage. The nuns assume that Kruger is her father, but people become suspicious of the relationship and mistake Kruger's intentions.

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

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