Solemn Communion
Released: April 27, 1977Runtime: 105 minLanguage: FR
In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.
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Christian Drillaud
as Charles Gravet jeune
Claude Bouchery
as Jules Ternolain
Isabelle Caillard
as Josette Dauchy jeune
Patrick Fierry
as François Dauchy jeune
Veronique Silver
as Josette Dauchy à 40 ans
Marcel Dalio
as Charles Gravet âgé
Myriam Boyer
as Léone Gravet-Rux
Manuel Strosser
as Julien Gravet III
Andre Marcon
as Lucien Gravet
Barbara Lemaire
as Odette Descamps-Gravet
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