Solemn Communion
La Communion solennelle
Release: 1977-04-27
·Runtime: 105m
·★ 4.1
Comedy
Drama
In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
FR3
INA
Société Française de Production (SFP)
Les Films de l'Arquebuse
Cast
Véronique Silver
as Josette Dauchy (40 ans)
Pierre Banderet
as Pierre Gravet
Jenny Clève
as Lucie Fourcignie-Ternolain
Serge Reggiani
as Le récitant chanteur (voice)
Yveline Ailhaud
as MariePaulet-Lhomme
Nathalie Baye
as Jeanne Vanderberghe
Philippe Léotard
as Jacques Gravet
Philippe Nahon
as Un syndicaliste
Coline Serreau
André Marcon
as Lucien Gravet
Andrée Tainsy
as Charlotte Fourcignie
Patrick Fierry
as François Dauchy (jeune)
Marcel Dalio
as Charles Gravet (vieux)
Myriam Boyer
as Léone Gravet-Rux
Roland Amstutz
as Raoul Lhomme
Pierre Forget
as François Dauchy (50 ans)
Monique Chaumette
as Lise Paulet-Dauchy (40 ans)
Denise Péron
as La gouvernante
René Féret
as Julien Gravet I
Ariane Ascaride
as Palmyre Blanchard-Lhomme
Christian Drillaud
as Charles Gravet (jeune)
