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Une CHAMBRE EN VILLE (Original title)A ROOM IN TOWN (Alternative title)
Date: 1982 (Release)

Country: France

A film directed by: Jacques Demy

Production company billing: ©1982. Progefi/TF1 Films Production/UGC/Top 1 Christine Gouze-Renal presents a Progefi-TF1 Films Production-UGC-Top 1 co-production
Synopsis: Nantes 1955. François and Edith are involved in a hopeless passion. They leave their respective spouses, and Edith's husband commits suicide because of it. Society is against their relationship however, and their affair ends.

Genre:
Drama
Credits (60)
©: Progéfi, ©: TF1 Films Production, ©: U.G.C., Top 1, Co-production: Progéfi, Co-production: TF1 Films, Co-production: UGC, Top 1, Presents: Christine Gouze-Rénal, Producer: Christine Gouze-Rénal, Unit Production Manager: Bernard Vaillant, Production Manager: Philippe Verro, Administration: Nelly Niay, Production Assistant: Jérôme Chalou, Trainee: Mathieu Mitsinkides, 1st Assistant Director: Denis Epstein, 2nd Assistant Director: Patrice Martineau, Script Supervisor: Annie Maurel, A film written by/Scenario: Jacques Demy, Director of Photography: Jean Penzer, Camera Operator: François Lartigue, 1st Assistant Camera: Michel Coteret, 2nd Assistant Camera: Eric Vallée, Camera Assistant: Michel Coteret, Gaffer: André Nové, Key Grip: Gilbert Darraux, Stills Photography: Moune Jamet, Editor: Sabine Mamou, Assistant Editor: Nelly Meunier, Trainee Editor: Patricia Mazuy, Art Director: Bernard Evein, 1st Assistant Art Director [Paris]: Georges Glon, 2nd Assistant Art Director [Nantes]: André Guérin, Trainee Art Director: Florence Lhebrard, Set Decorator: Gabriel Béchir, Set Dresser: Bernard Geanty, Prop Buyer: Gérard James, Property Master: Alain Laude, Property Master (Furniture): Raymond Lemoigne, Upholstery: Roger Fresca, Costumes: Rosalie Varda, Costumer: Christiane Fageol, Bernard Minne, Miss Dominique Sanda's Fur Coat by: Claude Gilbert, Make-up: Ronaldo Ribeiro de Abreu, Hair: Patrick Archambault, Music: Michel Colombier, Lyrics: Jacques Demy, Orchestra and Choirs Directed by: Michel Colombier, Music Producer: Jacques Revaux, Sound Supervisor: André Hervé, Sound Recording: Bruno Lambert, Sound Recording: Eric Tomlinson, Jean-Michel Porterie, Sound Mixer/Effects: Jonathan Liebling, Sound Mixer/Effects: Bernard Leroux, Gérard Lamps, Stunt Co-ordinator: Mario Luraschi, This film was made at: Studios de Billancourt
Cast (26)
Dominique Sanda (Edith Leroyer), Danielle Darrieux (Margot Langlois), Richard Berry (François Guilbaud), Michel Piccoli (Edmond Leroyer), Fabienne Guyon (Violette Pelletier), Anna Gaylor (Madame Pelletier), Jean-François Stévenin (Dambiel), Jean-Louis Rolland (domestic), Marie-France Roussel (Madame Sforza), Georges Blaness (CRS chief), Mapie Folliard (woman with child), Monique Creteur (woman with cat), Gil Warga (worker 1), Nicolas Hossein (worker 2), Yann Dedet (worker 3), Antoine Mikola (worker 4), Patrick Joly (waterer), Danielle Darrieux (Margot Langlois), Florence Davis (Edith), Liliane Davis (Madame Pelletier), Fabienne Guyon (Violette), Marie-France Roussel (Madame Sforza), Jacques Revaux (François), Jean-Louis Rolland (domestic), Georges Blaness (Edmond), Aldo Franck (Dambiel)