Kinoabend: „Hiroshima mon amour“

In the organizer's words:

"Film off!" for francophone movies: Every month, the Institut français shows a film en français in cooperation with the Student Council for Classical Philology and Romance Studies (KlaPhiRo) and the Schaubühne Lindenfels.

Alain Resnais' classic Hiroshima mon amour, starring Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada, is considered a pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague.

A French actress (Emmanuelle Riva), happily married, meets a Japanese architect (Eiji Okada), who is also happily married, while filming in Hiroshima fourteen years after the end of the war. The two love each other for 24 hours - aware of what separates and will separate them.

The woman's memories of her first great love for a German occupying soldier in Nevers, France, and the setting of Hiroshima bring to life the contrast between personal experience and historical context. A masterpiece and one of the great love stories in film history, written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Alain Resnais.

France / Japan, 1959
Director: Alain Resnais
With Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Bernard Fresson, Stella Dassa, Pierre Barbaud
Original language

In cooperation with the Schaubühne Lindenfels and the student council KlaPhiRo of the University of Leipzig.