Baptism
Synopsis
The story of director René Féret's parents. In 1935, his mother Aline (Valerie Stroh) works in her parents' cafe in a mining town in northern France. There, she meets a customer, Pierre (Jean-Yves Berteloot), and decides she is going to marry him. In a reversal of roles, she is the one who proposes to him, and she also engineers a false pregnancy to persuade her parents to okay the match. With a few stops along the way, the story picks up after the war with the birth of the couple's third son, who is given the name Rene in memory of their first, dead son. Never rich, they achieve some level of financial stability just as their sons are about to head off to the city for college. The love between the two older people is highlighted in a poignant scene as, just as he is about to die, the father shares a champagne toast with his wife in memory of one of their happier moments.
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Director (1)
Actors (12)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Les Films Alyne
- Co-productions : Man's Films, Société Générale de Gestion Cinématographique (SGGC)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Wide
Full credits (17)
- Executive Producer : René Féret
- Screenwriter : René Féret
- Director of Photography : Pierre Lhomme
- Music Composer : Evelyne Stroh
- Assistant directors : François Robin, Philippe Roussel, Christophe Vallée
- Editor : Henri Lanoë
- Sound Recordist : Michel Vionnet
- Costume designer : Barbara Kidd
- Foreign producer : Marion Hänsel
- Associate Producer : Jean-Bernard Fetoux
- Co-producer : Louis Wipf
- Assistant Operator : Jean-Yves Le Poulain
- Camera operators : Marc Detiffe, Jean-Paul Meurisse
- Sound editor : Susana Rossberg
- Continuity supervisor : Joëlle Keyser
- Foley artist : Jérôme Lévy
- Sound Mixer : Jacques Thomas-Gérard
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Family, Fate
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : France, Belgium
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1989
- French release : 23/08/1989
- Runtime : 2 h 7 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 67954
- Visa issue date : 07/08/1989
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
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