Synopsis

A young French actress is making an anti-war film in the rebuilt Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was devastated in a nuclear bomb blast at the end of the Second World War. Here, she has an affair with a Japanese architect, even though both of them are happily married. The actress admits that she will soon have to fly back home to Paris, but she spends one last night with her lover. At a café, she recounts the story of her first tragic love with a German soldier during the war...

Actors (5)

Emmanuelle Riva(Elle)

Eiji Okada(Lui)

Bernard Fresson(L'amant allemand)

Stella Dassas(La mère)

Pierre Barbaud(Le père)

Production and distribution (4)

Executive Producers :

Como Films, Argos Films

Film exports/foreign sales :

Tamasa Distribution

Foreign production company :

Daiei

French distribution :

Cocinor

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The early part of the film recounts, in the style of a documentary, but narrated by the so far unidentified characters, the effects of the Hiroshima bomb on August 6, 1945, in particular the loss of hair and the complete anonymity of the remains of some victims. He had been conscripted into the Japanese army, and his family was in Hiroshima on that day.

The film uses highly structured, repetitive dialogue, mostly consisting of Her narration, with Him interjecting to say she is wrong, lying, confused, or to deny and contradict her statements with the film's famous line "You are not endowed with memory". Although He disagrees and rejects many of the things She says, he pursues her constantly. The film is peppered with dozens of brief flashbacks to Her life; as a youth, she was shamed and had her head shaved as shaming and punishment for having a love affair with a German soldier, which she juxtaposes with the loss of the hair "which the women of Hiroshima will find has fallen out in the morning."

Source : Wikipedia.