Hiroshima, mon amour

Hiroshima, mon amour
France, 88 min, 1959
Alain Resnais

A French actress filming an anti-war movie in post-WWII Hiroshima shares a brief but intense 24-hour affair with a Japanese architect. Their passionate encounter triggers painful memories of her first love, a German soldier during the occupation of France, intertwining their personal traumas with the collective devastation of the atomic bomb.

SCREENINGS
9 November, 20:00 h, Babel *Q&A
  • Crew:
    Screenplay: Marguerite Duras
    Cinematography: Michio Takahashi, Sacha Vierny
    Music: Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco
    Editing: Jasmine Chasney, Henri Colpi, Anne Sarraute
    Production: Samy Halfon, Anatole Dauman
    Production Design: Mayo, Petri, Lucilla Mussini, Minoru Esaka
    Costume Design: Gérard Collery
  • Cast:
    Emmanuelle Riva
    Eiji Okada
    Bernard Fresson
    Stella Dassas
    Pierre Barbaud