Hiroshima, My Love
Hiroshima mon amour
Alain Resnais
In August 1957, a French actress goes to Hiroshima to make a film on peace. The memory of a drama comes back to her. A Japanese man, her lover, listens to her. In the ruins of the destroyed city she remembers her first love, a German soldier, during the war, in Nevers...
With : Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud
Screenplay : Marguerite Duras
Conseiller littéraire : Gérard Jarlot
Scripte : Sylvette Baudrot
Image : Michio Takahashi (Japon), Sacha Vierny (France)
Sound : Shirô Yamamoto, Pierre Calvet
Editing : Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney, Anne Sarraute
Music : Giovanni Fusco, Georges Delerue
Decors : Esaka, Antoine Mayo, Maurice Petri
Screenplay : Marguerite Duras
Conseiller littéraire : Gérard Jarlot
Scripte : Sylvette Baudrot
Image : Michio Takahashi (Japon), Sacha Vierny (France)
Sound : Shirô Yamamoto, Pierre Calvet
Editing : Henri Colpi, Jasmine Chasney, Anne Sarraute
Music : Giovanni Fusco, Georges Delerue
Decors : Esaka, Antoine Mayo, Maurice Petri
Production : Argos Films, Como Films, Daïeï, Pathe Overseas
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
Distribution: Tamasa Distribution
The meeting of a filmmaker and a writer on the theme of memory with the bombing of Hiroshima as a backdrop, this film compares the singular story of a woman in Nevers and the collective drama of Hiroshima. "The immense, enormous, fantastic scale of Hiroshima is countered by the tiny little story of Nevers, which is shown to us through Hiroshima, like a candle flame enlarged and inversed by a lens" (Alain Resnais). In the heart of this effort of memory, there is a story of adulterous love, generating memories. "It is often said that one love affair replaces another. However, in these exceptional circumstances, love fuels new love. And so, after 14 years, the young woman once again feels the emotion of her first love and identifies the Japanese man with the man she loved" (Alain Resnais).