Directed by:
Geoffrey ReeveCinematography:
Fred TammesComposer:
Tony KinseyCast:
Christopher Plummer, Catherine Hicks, Michael Lonsdale, Christopher Cazenove, Amélie Pick, Jean Badin, Lisa DanielyPlots(1)
In 1944, a dashing German soldier and a beautiful French girl fell deeply in love while World War II raged on. More than forty years later, Ernest Kestner, retired and recently widowed, leaves his adopted home in New York and returns to France to visit his headstrong, estranged daughter, with the fleeting hope of finding the love he was forced to leave behind. But this is no ordinary vacation in the charming French countryside. The mood is strangely dark, and what Kestner and his daughter encounter is completely unexpected as the veteran soldier seeks the ultimate Souvenir - born from the ashes of a horrible, hidden secret. Based on the true story of Oradour-sur-Glane, a French town that was nearly wiped out near the end of WWII. Most every man, woman and child was gunned down or burned in retaliation for the French Resistance. The entire ruined town has been preserved as a national memorial. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Christopher Plummer
Canada
Best movies:
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
My Brother Tom (1986) (TV movie)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Catherine Hicks
USA
Best movies:
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Child's Play (1988)
For All Time (2000) (TV movie)
Michael Lonsdale
France
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Order of the Daisy (1967)
Christopher Cazenove
UK
Best movies:
Julius Caesar (1970)
Zulu Dawn (1979)
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) (series)
Amélie Pick
Best movies:
Souvenir (1989)
Les Cœurs brûlés (1992) (series)
Jean Badin
Best movies:
Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters (1999) (TV movie)
Crossroads (1986)
Time Regained (1999)
Lisa Daniely
UK
Best movies:
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Souvenir (1989)
Arena (1989)