A Stranger in Strasbourg
Synopsis
Caught in the act with her lover Jean-Paul, Madeleine kills her husband. She urges Jean-Paul to leave and meet her on a certain day at “Gretel’s”, in Strasbourg. Jean-Paul has an accident and loses his memory. The appointment in Strasbourg is the only thing he can remember. At “Gretel’s”, he is approached by a couple who recognize him as Christian Vogel, the heir to a sizable fortune. Over the next few days, several other people confirm his new identity. But Jean-Paul is the unwitting victim of a plot. Only Madeleine can help him recover his memory.
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Director (1)
Actors (11)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Gemini Films
- Foreign production company : Madragoa Filmes
- Film exports/foreign sales : The Bureau Sales
- French distribution : Gemini Films
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Paulo Branco
- Screenwriters : Evelyne Pieiller, Raoul Ruiz, Gérard Mordillat, Valeria Sarmiento
- Director of Photography : Acacio De Almeida
- Music Composer : Jorge Arriagada
- Assistant directors : Antoine Beau, Guillaume Roitfeld, Élodie Baticle
- Editor : Rodolfo Wedeles
- Sound Recordist : Michel Mellier
- Costume designer : Carine Sarfati
- Sound Assistant : Emmanuel Pietri
- Assistant Operators : Thibaud Danton, Emmanuel Pineau
- Production Manager : Stéphane Riga
- Press Attachés (film) : Bruno Barde, Corinne De Bury
- Assistant editors : Béatrice Clérico, Julie Decondé
- Continuity supervisor : Françoise Thouvenot
- Production Designer : Yves Fournier
- Casting : Richard Rousseau
- Sound Mixer : Gérard Rousseau
- Location Manager : Jean-Dominique Chouchan
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Crime/thriller, Thriller
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Portugal
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Portugal)
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 19/08/1998
- Runtime : 1 h 40 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 92.486
- Visa issue date : 17/07/1998
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
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About
With ‘A Stranger in Strasbourg’ Valeria Sarmiento has embarked on a detective movie, that is a story whose twists and turns depend primarily on a hidden determinism and a voluntary construction. The result is a wry, intelligent play on the theme of intrigue and manipulation. A man with no memory wanders the streets of Strasbourg, a city whose spirit the director grasps well by filming it like a backlot movie set. In a matter of minutes, our amnesiac is identified as a wealthy businessman that his family has been trying to find for three years. We’ll say no more about the plot except that it runs like a train launched headlong down tracks that lead through areas of darkness, which Valeria Sarmiento plays with, while at the same time exposing their silliness. (Jean-François Rauger in “Le Monde”, August 20th 1998)
