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Hiroshima mon amour

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Original title

Hiroshima mon amour

Year

1959

Running time

88 min.

Country

France

Director

Alain Resnais

Screenwriter

Marguerite Duras

Cast

Music

Georges Delerue, Giovanni Fusco

Cinematography

Sacha Vierny, Takahashi Michio (B&W)

Producer

Co-production France-Japan;

Genre

Drama. Romance | Romantic Drama. Nuclear Holocaust. Nouvelle vague (New Wave)

Synopsis

A young French actress is making an anti-war film in the rebuilt Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was devastated in a nuclear bomb blast at the end of the Second World War. Here, she has an affair with a Japanese architect, even though both of them are happily married. The actress admits that she will soon have to fly back home to Paris, but she spends one last night with her lover. At a café, she recounts the story of her first tragic love with a German soldier during the war...

Rankings Position

#72 Best French Movies of all time
#150 Best Romantic Movies in the history of film

Awards: 1960: Nominated for Oscar: Best Original Screenplay

1960: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best Film & Best Foreign Actress (Riva)

1959: Cannes Film Festival: FIPRESCI Prize, ex-aequo with "Araya"

1960: New York Film Critics Circle: Best Foreign Language Film

1960: Directors Guild of America (DGA): Nominated for Best Director

1960: National Board of Review: Top Best Foreign Language Films

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38 My Favorite French Movies (77)

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