Title: Promise at Dawn
Original Title: La promesse de l'aube
Year: 2017
Info
- Country: France Belgium
- Language: Swedish French
- Length: 131 Minutes (2 hours 11 min)
- Genre: Biography Drama Romance
- Studios: Nexus Factory Pathé
- Distributor: Alfa Pictures
Plot
'Promise at Dawn' tells the story of Roman Kacew (Pierre Niney) with a biographical style. Roman remembers some of the most important moments of his life as the movie goes on: his childhood in Poland, his adolescence in Nice, the emigration he had to do with his family to the south of France in order to escape the consequences of Hitler's ascension to power in Germany and his career in the French Air Force. All of that with his mother Nina (Charlotte Gainsbourg) in the background, without whom his life wouldn't have been the same.
It's an adaptation of the homonymous novel of Romain Gary in which he remembers his life as a young man fighting for France in the Second World War. But, above all, it tells the story of the love he feels for his mother, to whom he owes more than it looks like.
Cast
Director:
Roman Kacew / Roman Gary
Nina Kacew
Alex Gubernatis
Zaremba
Lesley Blanch
Captain Langer
Romain (Kid)
Videos
March 13 2018
Photos
Trivia
An excessively long adaptation
The director split the novel in units of action to organize the three acts better, but he got 876. He had to reduce them to get a considerable number for a movie.
Inspired by his grandmother
Charlotte Gainsbourg was inspired by her grandmother for the character of Nina because of the few referents she had from the original Nina.
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