From the director and star of “Amelie” (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou) comes a very different love story: “A Very Long Engagement,” based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot.

The film is 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.

It tells the story of this young woman's relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiancee, 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.

What follows is an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.

Directed by
Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Cast
Audrey Tautou - Mathilde
Gaspard Ulliel - Manech
Dominique Pinon - Sylvain
Ticky Holgado - Germain Pire
Chantal Neuwirth - Benedicte
Andre Dussollier - Rouvieres
Jerome Kircher - Bastoche
Jean-Pierre Daroussin - Benjamin Gordes
Dominique Bettenfeld - Ange Bassignano
Jean-Claude Dreyfus - Commandant Lavrouye
Marion Cotillard - Tina Lombardi

Production Co.
2003 Productions
TF1 Films Productions
Tapioca Films
Warner Bros. France

Produced by
Bill Gerber
Angus Finney
David Puttnam

Studio
Warner Independent Pictures

Writer
Guillaume Laurant
Sebastien Japrisot

Music
Angelo Badalamenti