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A PROMISE (UNE PROMESSE) (Past Film)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, JAPAN
Release date : Dec 20, 2014
 
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Completed - ENGLISH - Drama, Historical, Romance - 94 minutes

Log Line

Germany, 1912. A married woman promises her young lover she will wait for him. 8 years later, the exile returns home. Has their love survived?

Year of production : 2013

Director(s) : Patrice LECONTE
Writer(s) : Jérôme TONNERRE, Patrice LECONTE
Cast : Alan RICKMAN, Rebecca HALL, Richard MADDEN

Producer(s) : Marc MISSONNIER (FIDELITE FILMS), Olivier DELBOSC (FIDELITE FILMS)

Synopsis

Germany, 1912. A graduate of humble origins takes up a clerical post in a steel factory. Impressed by his work, the elderly owner takes him on as his private secretary. His health declining, the owner is confined to his home, where the young man moves to continue his work.
There he meets the owner’s wife, a much younger woman, beautiful and reserved.
As time passes the young man falls passionately in love but does not dare reveal his feelings. A romantic intrigue develops in this stifling bourgeois home, all looks and silences, without a single word or gesture of love.
When the owner announces he is sending his secretary to oversee his mines in Mexico, the wife’s stricken reaction reveals to the young man that she too has fallen secretly in love - a love she cannot express in the presence of her sick husband. She makes him a promise - when he returns in two years ' time, she will be his.
Separated by an ocean, they exchange passionate letters while awaiting the day that will reunite them. Then, on the verge of his return to Germany, World War 1 erupts. All maritime travel between South America and Europe is suspended…
Eight years later, with millions dead and Europe in ruins, the exile returns, to his homeland and to the woman he hopes has been waiting for him. But has their love survived the brutal passage of time?

Production

Country(ies) : FRANCE

BELGIUM Apr 16, 2014 ALTERNATIVE FIL
BULGARIA A PLUS FILMS LT
FRANCE Apr 16, 2014 MARS FILMS
FRANCE DOGMA FILMS
GREECE SEVEN FILMS
HONG KONG EDKO FILMS LTD
ISRAEL ORLANDO FILMS L
ITALY OFFICINE UBU
JAPAN Dec 20, 2014 COMSTOCK GROUP
NEW ZEALAN VENDETTA FILMS
TURKEY CODEX MEDIA AND
UNITED KIN Aug 01, 2014 ALTITUDE FILM S

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Festivals and Awards

La Biennale di Venezia - Venice FF 2013 Out of Competition
Toronto - TIFF 2013 Special Presentations
Fest. Européen des Arcs 2013 Avant-premiere
RDV Unifrance 2014
Beijing IFF 2014 Competition


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