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Memoir of War benefits from a magnetic performance by Mélanie Thierry, whose work is often enough to counter some of the film's fundamental flaws. Read critic reviews

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Desperate for news of her husband, who has been arrested by the Germans, a writer and resistant enters into a high-risk game of psychological cat and mouse with a Nazi collaborator.

Cast & Crew

Mélanie Thierry
Marguerite Duras épouse Antelme
Benoît Magimel
Pierre Rabier
Benjamin Biolay
Dionys Mascolo
Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
François Mitterrand - alias François Morland
Emmanuel Bourdieu
Robert Antelme
Patrick Lizana
Georges Beauchamp
Shulamit Adar
Madame Katz
Joanna Grudzinska
Thérèse
Emmanuel Finkiel
Director
Emmanuel Finkiel
Screenwriter
Julien Deris
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Yael Fogiel
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David Gauquie
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Laetitia Gonzalez
Producer
Etienne Mallet
Producer
Michel Merkt
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Vincent Roget
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Nathalie Vallet
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