The Return of Martin Guerre
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Return of Martin Guerre | |
---|---|
Directed by | Daniel Vigne |
Produced by | Daniel Vigne |
Written by | Daniel Vigne Jean-Claude Carrière Natalie Zemon Davis |
Starring | Gérard Depardieu Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu Nathalie Baye Roger Planchon Dominique Pinon |
Release date(s) | May 14, 1982 |
Running time | 122 min |
Language | French |
IMDb profile |
The Return of Martin Guerre (Le Retour de Martin Guerre) is a 1982 French film directed by Daniel Vigne and based on true events in France during the 16th century. (See main article Martin Guerre). The film depicts a case of identity theft after a war, a man showing up in his village several years after his departure, soon eliciting suspicions from his former friends on his identity.
In 1983, a book of the same name was written by Natalie Zemon Davis, an American historian of early modern France.
[edit] Remake
Sommersby was a 1993 American remake, set after the Civil War, starred Richard Gere and Jodie Foster.