Ancient History
Synopsis
Olivier is preparing his thesis on the history of French Resistance members shot during World War II. His best friend, Guy, works in a book shop and provides him with the materials necessary for his research. What Olivier really wants is to meet Guy’s father who, at the end of the war, miraculously escaped from a group execution.
The young bookseller procrastinates and the meeting never takes place: Guy hides from Olivier the news that the former Resistance hero has just recently died.
Avoiding grief, Guy is gradually overtaken by a feeling of guilt: he soon blames himself for eradicating all trace of his father by honoring the deceased’s wish to be cremated. He returns to the bosom of the family, obsessed by the idea of his dead father.
He finds his sister Danielle and brother Fabien worried about their mother, debilitated, both physically and mentally, by sorrow. Despite his siblings’ warnings, Guy insists on commemorating his father and taking sole charge of his mother. When she is hospitalized due to illness, Guy returns home, prey to increasing madness.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (27)
Production and distribution (4)
- Executive Producer : Sunday Morning Productions
- Co-production : Arte France Cinéma
- Film exports/foreign sales : Playtime
- French distribution : Les Films du Losange
Full credits (17)
- Executive Producers : Nathalie Mesuret, Bertrand Gore
- Screenwriters : Orso Miret, Roger Bohbot, Agnès De Sacy
- Director of Photography : Olivier Chambon
- Music Composer : Krishna Levy
- Assistant directors : Cécile Chaspoul, Marion Lallier
- Editor : Agnès Brückert
- Sound Recordist : Patrice Mendez
- Costume designers : Jackie Budin, Anne Dunsford-Varenne
- Production Manager : Hervé Duhamel
- Press Attaché (film) : Laurence Granec
- Sound Editor : Patrice Mendez
- Continuity supervisor : Sandra Di Pasquale
- Production Designer : Christian Roudil
- Casting : Nicolas Lublin
- Sound Mixer : Olivier Dô Hûu
- Still Photographer : Jean-Claude Lother
- Location Manager : Bertrand Soupey
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : French
- Production country : France (100.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2000
- French release : 21/02/2001
- Runtime : 1 h 59 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 94.340
- Visa issue date : 05/01/2001
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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