Sundays and Cybèle
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Serge Bourguignon
Hardy Kruger
Patricia Gozzi
Nicole Courcel
Daniel Ivernel
Michel De Ré
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Pierre, a pilot during the French-Indochina War, develops amnesia as a result of his fear that he killed a young girl on a bombing mission. He returns to France, moves in with Madeleine, a nurse whom he had met while hospitalized, and begins a pointless life of wandering around the small town of Ville d'Avray. One day he meets Françoise, a 12-year-old girl who has been left by her father at the local convent school. The nuns, assuming Pierre to be her father, allow the two to spend each Sunday together, and a warm relationship develops. The child makes Pierre vow to bring her the weathercock from a church steeple, and in return, Françoise promises to tell him her real name. Eventually, a friend of Madeleine's becomes suspicious of the relationship between the man and child and notifies the police. While they celebrate Christmas together near a lake, the child tells Pierre that her name is Cybèle (the goddess of the earth). Their idyl is interrupted by the arrival of the police, who assume that Pierre intends to assault the child. After killing Pierre, they ask Françoise her name, but she replies that she no longer has one.
Director
Serge Bourguignon
Cast
Hardy Kruger
Patricia Gozzi
Nicole Courcel
Daniel Ivernel
Michel De Ré
André Oumansky
Anne-marie Coffinet
Alain Bouvette
René Clermont
Malka Ribovska
Jocelyne Loiseau
Renée Duchâteau
Raymond Pélissier
Martine Ferrière
Maurice Garrel
France Anglade
Albert Hugues
Florence Blot
Gilbert Edard
Antoine Tudal
Paul Bonifas
Serge Bourguignon
Dominique Maurin
Jacques Prévot
Jacques Robiolles
Jacques Tessier
Roger Trapp
Lisette Le Bon
Denise Péronne
Bibiane Stern
Crew
Léonide Azar
Serge Bourguignon
Serge Bourguignon
Henri Decaë
Gérard Ducaux-rupp
Bernard Eschassériaux
Bernard Evein
Raymond Froment
Maurice Jarre
Jean Nény
Romain Pinès
Jacques Planté
Robert Teisseire
Antoine Tudal
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Wins
Best Foreign Language Film
Award Nominations
Best Score
Best Writing, Screenplay
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
Opened in Paris in November 1962 as Les dimanches de Ville d'Avray. Alternative French title: Cybèle.
Miscellaneous Notes
Voted Best Foreign Film by the 1962 National Board of Review.
Voted One of the Year's Ten Best Films by the 1962 New York Times Film Critics.
Winner of the Samuel Goldwyn Award at the 1962 Golden Globes.
Released in United States August 1962
Released in United States Fall November 12, 1962
Re-released in United States on Video September 11, 1996
Shown at Venice Film Festival August 1962.
Franscope
Released in United States August 1962 (Shown at Venice Film Festival August 1962.)
Re-released in United States on Video September 11, 1996
Released in United States Fall November 12, 1962
