HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR
synopsis
A French woman and a Japanese man have an affair while she is in Japan making a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, The man, an architect, lost his family in the bombing. She recalls her lover during the war, a 23 year-old German soldier who later died. Despite the time they spend together, her attachment appears minimal and they go forward into the future.
| international title: | Hiroshima, My Love |
| original title: | Hiroshima mon amour |
| country: | France, Japan |
| year: | 1959 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Alain Resnais |
| film run: | 90' |
| release date: | FR 08/05/1959, IT 05/09/1959, FI 23/10/1959, DK 21/03/1960, SE 02/04/1960, DE 12/04/1960, UK 1960, TR 04/1962, ES 01/12/1967, DD 11/07/1969, PT 27/04/1974, GR 22/08/2003, IE 30/11/2014, PL 16/07/2019 |
| screenplay: | Marguerite Duras |
| cast: | Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas |
| cinematography by: | Michio Takahashi, Sacha Vierny |
| film editing: | Jasmine Chasney, Henri Colpi, Anne Sarraute |
| art director: | Minoru Esaka, Antoine "Mayo" Malliarakis |
| costumes designer: | Gerard Collery |
| producer: | Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon |
