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
René Féret
as Julien Gravet I
Marcel Dalio
as Charles Gravet (vieux)
Myriam Boyer
as Léone Gravet-Rux
Roland Amstutz
as Raoul Lhomme
Pierre Forget
as François Dauchy (50 ans)
Christian Drillaud
as Charles Gravet (jeune)
Patrick Fierry
as François Dauchy (jeune)
Philippe Léotard
as Jacques Gravet
Jenny Clève
as Lucie Fourcignie-Ternolain
Serge Reggiani
as Le récitant chanteur (voice)
André Marcon
as Lucien Gravet
Ariane Ascaride
as Palmyre Blanchard-Lhomme
Yveline Ailhaud
as MariePaulet-Lhomme
Andrée Tainsy
as Charlotte Fourcignie
Véronique Silver
as Josette Dauchy (40 ans)
Nathalie Baye
as Jeanne Vanderberghe
Pierre Banderet
as Pierre Gravet
Monique Chaumette
as Lise Paulet-Dauchy (40 ans)
Philippe Nahon
as Un syndicaliste
Denise Péron
as La gouvernante
Coline Serreau
