Hiroshima Mon Amour
Directors
Alain Resnais
Actors
- Emmanuelle Riva
- Eiji Okada
- Stella Dassas
Credits: 6
Summary
A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.
More about this movie
A French woman and a Japanese man have an affair while she is in Japan making a film about peace and the impact of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, The man, an architect, lost his family in the bombing. She recalls her lover during the war, a 23 year-old German soldier who later died. Despite the time they spend together, her attachment appears minimal and they go forward into the future.