Marthe
Marthe
Release: 1997-10-28
·Runtime: 121m
·★ 5.9
Drama
Romance
War
This Great War drama opens in the trenches during an artillery bombardment. Receiving bayonet wounds, young Simon (Guillaume Depardieu) drops out of the action, joining other injured soldiers at a Brittany hospital. One day he meets schoolteacher Marthe (Clotilde Courau), who lives in the household of the hospital's head doctor (Bernard Giraudeau). Soon a romance begins to develop. Cinematography by Kevin Jewison, son of director Norman Jewison.
Cast
Serge Riaboukine
as Lucien
Bruno Slagmulder
as Martin
Kader Boukhanef
as Mouloud
Thérèse Liotard
as Rose Bireau
Mathias Jung
as Gauthier
Clotilde Courau
as Marthe
Guillaume Depardieu
as Simon
Bernard Giraudeau
as le colonel
Loïc Corbery
as Pierrot
Gérard Jugnot
as Henri
Cerise Leclerc
as la sœur de Pauline
Albert Delpy
as l'adjudant "Gros Q"
