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Hiroshima mon amour (French pronunciation: [iʁoʃima mɔ̃n‿amuʁ], lit. Hiroshima, My Love, Japanese: 二十四時間の情事, romanized: Nijūyojikan no jōji, lit. 'Twenty-four hour love affair') is a 1959 romantic drama film directed by French director Alain Resnais and written by French author Marguerite Duras.
Alain Resnais (French: [alɛ̃ ʁɛnɛ]; 3 June 1922 – 1 March 2014) was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades.After training as a film editor in the mid-1940s, he went on to direct short films including Night and Fog (1956), an influential documentary about the Nazi concentration camps.
[1] Levy did not show the script to potential financiers; instead, he told them: "Look here, you turned down The 400 Blows because you couldn't understand the script, you turned down Hiroshima Mon Amour; well, I can't make head nor tail of this script and what's more I'm not even going to show it to you - but I want 30 million francs."
Hiroshima Mon Amour: Alain Resnais: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas: Drama: French-Japanese co-production [16] Hit and Run: Bernard Borderie: Antonella Lualdi, Félix Marten, Aimè Clariond: Crime: French-Italian-Yugoslav co-production Houla Houla: Robert Darène: Fernand Raynaud, Noël Roquevert: Comedy: The Indestructible: Jean Boyer
The story of Sadako Sasaki, a young Hiroshima survivor diagnosed with leukemia, has been recounted in a number of books and films. Two of the best-known of these works are Karl Bruckner 's The Day of the Bomb (1961), translated into 22 languages, and Eleanor Coerr 's Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Putnam, 1977).
Hiroshima Mon Amour French director Alain Resnais may be most often associated with the free-wheeling films of the French New Wave movement, but perhaps his greatest gift to world cinema is ...
H Story (2001) – Japanese biographical drama film about an attempt to remake Alain Resnais' 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour [47] H3 (2001) – Irish biographical drama film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland, the events leading up to it, and subsequent developments in the prisoners' struggle for Prisoner of ...
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