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6.8/10
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Genre
  
Drama

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Country
  
France

7.1/10
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The Long Absence movie poster

Writer
  
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Gerard Jarlot

Release date
  
17 May 1961 (France)15 November 1962 (U.S.)

Screenplay
  
Marguerite Duras, Gerard Jarlot

Cast
  
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Georges Delerue composed the music for The Long Absence and One Deadly Summer

The long absence


The Long Absence (French: Une aussi longue absence) is a 1961 French film directed by Henri Colpi. It tells the story of Therese (Alida Valli), a café owner mourning the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times.

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The Long Absence shared the Palme d'Or prize with the Luis Buñuel film Viridiana at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast

  • Alida Valli as Thérèse Langlois
  • Georges Wilson as The Tramp
  • Charles Blavette as Fernand
  • Amédée as Marcel Langlois
  • Paul Faivre as Pensioner
  • Pierre Parel as Manager
  • Catherine Fonteney as Alice
  • Diane Lepvrier as Martine (as Diana Lepvrier)
  • Nane Germon as Simone
  • Georges Bellec as Young man
  • Charles Bouillaud as Favier
  • Corrado Guarducci as Workman
  • Clément Harari as Man at Juke Box
  • Jean Luisi as Workman
  • Pierre Mirat as Druggist
  • References

    The Long Absence Wikipedia
    The Long Absence IMDbThe Long Absence LetterboxdThe Long Absence themoviedb.org