A Saturday on Earth
Synopsis
Despondent, guilt-racked Martin sits in the middle of a country road waiting for someone to run him down, just as he accidentally struck and killed another years before. The incident has destroyed his life with his adopted family and ruined his marriage. Now he has nothing left to live for. The first car that comes is driven by his sister Claire. She manages to stop in time, but soon afterward both die. This compelling French mystery follows police as they try to piece together the tragic scenario by interviewing the residents of the coastal Normandy town where Claire and Martin lived. These people give both fictional and true accounts of Martin and Claire's lives.
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Actors (39)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : IMA Productions
- Co-productions : MP Productions, Lumière International, Arte France Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : AFMD
Full credits (17)
- Executive Producer : Georges Benayoun
- Adaptation : Diane Bertrand, Guillaume Laurant
- Screenwriter : Diane Bertrand
- Director of Photography : Michel Amathieu
- Music Composer : Pascal Comelade
- Assistant directors : Pierre Sénélas, Agnès Petit
- Editor : Maryline Monthieux
- Sound Recordist : Pierre Excoffier
- Costume designer : Madeline Fontaine
- Executive Producer : Elisabeth Deviosse
- Co-producer : Michel Propper
- Sound Assistant : Laurent Zeilig
- Press Attaché (film) : Laurence Granec
- Assistant editor : Valérie Pasteau
- Production Designer : Philippe Chiffre
- Sound mixers : Thierry Lebon, Vincent Arnardi
- Still Photographer : Jean-Claude Lother
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1996
- French release : 28/08/1996
- Runtime : 1 h 35 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 86.866
- Visa issue date : 25/07/1996
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
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"I remember my first meeting with Elsa Zylberstein in a tearoom. Would she accept this unusual project ?... I remember her smile, the way time seemed to stand still and the dampness on my back... She accepted and everything became possible within a fraction of a second... I then remember the intense pleasure of the casting process, the generosity of the actors and the joy of accepting them too... I remember the location scouting in Normandy with Michel Amathieu and our anxiety at having to shoot on location in November when the story was supposed to take place in summer... I remember the first dailies in the parish hall in Veulettes and the whole crew waiting for a projector that wouldn't work... but I above all remember the happiness of being together to make this film, as if it was the most important thing in our lives... And, it's true, it was..."
(Diane Bertrand)
