- Une chambre en ville
Infobox Film
name = Une chambre en ville
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director =Jacques Demy
producer =Christine Gouze-Rénal
writer = Jacques Demy
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starring =Dominique Sanda Danielle Darrieux Richard BerryMichel Piccoli
music =Michel Colombier
cinematography =Jean Penzer
editing =Sabine Mamou
distributor =Progefi /TFI /Union Generale Cinematographique
released = October 27, 1982
runtime = 90 min
country = France
language = French
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imdb_id = 0084843"Une chambre en ville" is a 1982 French film directed by
Jacques Demy . Like much of his work, it is a musical in which every line of dialogue is sung.The film won the Prix Méliès, and was nominated for nine César Awards: Best Film, Best Director, Most Promising Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography, Best Music, Best Production Design and Best Sound.
Plot
The story is set during a workers' strike in Nantes in 1955. Steel worker François Guilbaud is one of the strikers, and he rents a room from Margot Langlois, a widow who sympathizes with the strikers although she is herself upper-class. He has a pregnant girlfriend named Violette Pelletier, to whom he becomes less and less attracted, and abandons. When he tries to defend his behaviour, she feels she is treated even more unjustly. He meets Edith Leroyer, a beautiful working-class girl who is unhappily married to a rich but impotent and neurotic merchant, and a part-time prostitute. Unbeknownst to him she is the daughter of the widow. He first meets her in the street and one night she shows up in his room, wearing only her fur coat. They fall instantly in love, but their great passion lasts only one night, for during the demonstration he is shot by the police and dies in Edith's arms.
Cast
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Dominique Sanda - Edith Leroyer
*Danielle Darrieux - Margot Langlois
*Richard Berry - François Guilbaud
*Michel Piccoli - Edmond Leroyer
*Fabienne Guyon - Violette Pelletier
*Anna Gaylor - Madame Pelletier
*Jean-François Stévenin - Dambiel
*Jean-Louis Rolland - Ménager
*Marie-France Roussel - Mme Sforza
*Georges Blaness - Chef des CRS
*Yann Dedet - Ouvrier
*Nicolas Hossein - Ouvrier
*Gil Warga - Ouvrier
*Antoine Mikola - Ouvrier
*Marie-Pierre Feuillard - Femme à l'enfantExternal links
*imdb title|0084843
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