Hiroshima Mon Amour

Hiroshima mon amour (1959)

Timing: 1:32 (92 min)

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All about film

Video 4

Photo 42

Actors and characters

Release date

1959-06-10

Country

France, Japan

Production

Pathé Entertainment, Argos Films, Daiei Film, Como Films, Pathé Overseas

Genre

Drama, History, Romance

Budget

$0

Revenue

$3 193

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Director

Alain Resnais

Actors

Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson
All actors and roles (5)

Scenario

Producer

Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon

Operator

Sacha Vierny

Composer

Georges Delerue

Artist

Audition

Editing

Jasmine Chasney, Anne Sarraute, Henri Colpi
All team (19)

• At the time of filming, Japanese actor Eiji Okada did not know French, and therefore was forced to memorize his lines by ear.
• It was assumed that Françoise Sagan would write the screenplay for the film, but Marguerite Duras took on the work after the writer refused.
• Alain Resnais insisted that his film was supposedly built on a clear algorithm: “I presented Marguerite with the algebraic concept of the work. If you were to represent ‘Hiroshima’ with a diagram, you would discover a quartet form close to a musical score: themes, variations on the initial theme, repetitions, returns that may seem unbearable to those who do not accept the rules of the game in this film. The diagram would show that the film is constructed as a triangle, in the shape of a funnel.”
• Alain Resnais claimed that his film was allegedly built on a clear algorithm: "I explained to Marguerite the algebraic concept of the work. If you represent "Hiroshima" with a diagram, you will discover a quartet form close to a musical score: themes, variations on the initial theme, repetitions, returns that may seem unbearable for those who do not accept the rules of the game in this film. The diagram would show that the film is constructed like a triangle, in the form of a funnel."