In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.

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Cast

Miou-Miou

Madeleine

Isabelle Huppert

Lena Weber

Guy Marchand

Michel Korski

Jean-Pierre Bacri

Costa Segara

Robin Renucci

Raymond

Patrick Bauchau

Carlier

Jacques Alric

Mr. Vernier

Jacqueline Doyen

Mme Vernier

Christine Pascal

Sarah

Bernard Cazassus

Le chef de gare

Gérard Chambre

Flirt

François Cluzet

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