La guerre est finie
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Alain Resnais
Yves Montand
Ingrid Thulin
Geneviève Bujold
Jean Dasté
Jorge Semprun
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Diego, a revolutionary for 25 years, living in exile in Paris, is stopped and questioned by the border patrol while returning from Madrid using an assumed name and false passport. Attempting to unmask him, the police call the impostor's alleged phone number; the telephone is answered by Nadine, a student revolutionary who verifies his false identity. In Paris, Diego discovers that his contact, Juan, has already left for Spain; and he learns that comrades in Madrid have been arrested. He proposes intercepting Juan and forestalling his mission to preserve his safety, but Roberto, who arranges the trips, refuses, placing primary importance on preparations for a forthcoming general strike. Diego visits Nadine; immediately attracted, the strangers make love. Diego then returns to his devoted mistress, Marianne, a divorcée with a 12-year-old son. He is disquieted, however, by the presence of visitors. At a cell meeting the following day, Diego is prohibited from traveling to Madrid, and his friend Ramon is appointed in his stead. Furthermore, Diego's skepticism regarding the effectiveness of the general strike is attributed to his subjectivity, and he is instructed to rest and reflect upon his failings. After observing police detectives following Nadine, Diego learns that the student and her radical friends are planning to terrorize tourists in Spain and that Marianne is a sympathizer. The exhausted Diego rebukes the young revolutionaries, disavowing random violence. Diego's enforced rest is ended when Ramon dies unexpectedly. Following Diego's departure for Madrid, trouble develops, and the loyal Marianne is recruited to save him. As she boards a plane to Madrid, Marianne thinks of Diego.
Director
Alain Resnais
Cast
Yves Montand
Ingrid Thulin
Geneviève Bujold
Jean Dasté
Jorge Semprun
Dominique Rozan
Jean-françois Rémi
Marie Mergey
Jacques Wallet
Michel Piccoli
Anouk Ferjac
Roland Monod
Pierre Decazes
Paul Crauchet
Claire Duhamel
Antoine Bourseiller
Laurence Badie
Françoise Bertin
Yvette Etiévant
Jean Bouise
Annie Fargue
Gérard Séty
Catherine De Seynes
Jacques Rispal
Fylgia Zadig
Pierre Leproux
Roger Pelletier
R. J. Chauffard
José-maría Flotats
Jean Bolo
Pierre Barbaud
Gérard Lartigau
Jean Larrouquette
Martine Vatel
Laure Paillette
Jacques Robnard
Marcel Cuvelier
Bernard Fresson
Antoine Vitez
Crew
Robert Alliel
Sylvette Baudrot
Antoine Bonfanti
Philippe Brun
Robert Cambourakis
Blanche Cochet
Giovanni Fusco
Noelle Gillmor
Georges Houssaye
Madeleine Lafon
Nicole Lala
Yves Laurent
Jean Léon
Pierre Li
Louis Lliberia
Urbain Loiseau
Florence Malraux
Alexandre Marcus
Eliane Marcus
Marie-martine
Charles Mérangel
Hadassa Misrahi
René Pequinot
Jean Pieuchot
Eric Pluet
Ziva Postec
Alain Quefféléan
Gisèle Rebillon
Jacques Saulnier
Jorge Semprun
Sacha Vierny
Catherine Winter
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Writing, Screenplay
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Filmed in Paris and other French locations. Opened in Paris in May 1966; in Stockholm in March 1967 as Kriget är slut. Also known as The War Is Over.
Miscellaneous Notes
Voted Best Foreign Film of the Year by the 1967 New York Film Critics Association.
Voted One of the Year's Ten Best Films by the 1967 New York Times Film Critics.
Winner of the International Critics Prize at the 1966 Cannes Film Festival.
Released in United States May 9, 1966
Released in United States September 22, 1966
Released in United States Winter January 1967
Premiered at Cannes Film Festival May 9, 1966.
Shown at New York Film Festival September 22, 1966.
Shot between August and November 1985.
Released in United States Winter January 1967
Released in United States May 9, 1966 (Premiered at Cannes Film Festival May 9, 1966.)
Released in United States September 22, 1966 (Shown at New York Film Festival September 22, 1966.)
