A Very Long Engagement

The Story

Set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisien halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl and her relentless search to find her fiancé, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. All an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.

Cast

Audrey Tautou ............................. Mathilde
Gaspard Ulliel .................................. Manech
Dominique Pinon ............................. Sylvain
Chantal Neuwirth ......................... Bénédicte
André Dussollier ... Pierre-Marie Rouvières
Ticky Holgado .......................... Germain Pire
Marion Cotillard ................... Tina Lombardi
Dominique Bettenfeld ... Ange Bassignano
Jodie Foster ........................... Elodie Gordes
Jean-Pierre Darroussin ... Benjamin Gordes
Clovis Cornillac ............ Benoît Notre-Dame
Jean-Pierre Becker .... Lieutenant Esperanza
Denis Lavant ................................... Six-Soux
Jérôme Kircher ............................... Bastoche
Albert Dupontel ..................... Célestin Poux

Director
Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Writer (WGA)
Sébastien Japrisot (novel)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (story and adaptation)
Guillaume Laurant (story and adaptation)
Guillaume Laurant (dialogue)

Release Date
27 October 2004 (France)
26 November 2004 (USA)