The Abyss (1988 film)
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The Abyss is a 1988 drama film
Drama film
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 directed by André Delvaux. It was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival
1988 Cannes Film Festival
- Jury :*Ettore Scola*Claude Berri*David Robinson*Yelena Safonova*George Miller*Hector Olivera*Nastassja Kinski*Philippe Sarde*Robby Muller*William Goldman-Feature film competition:* A World Apart by Chris Menges...

. It is based on the novel of the same name by Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar
Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.-Biography:Yourcenar was born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie...

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Cast

  • Gian Maria Volonté
    Gian Maria Volontè
    Gian Maria Volonté was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and For a Few Dollars More.-Early life:Volonté was born in Milan, and graduated in Rome in 1957...

     – Zénon
  • Sami Frey
    Sami Frey
    Sami Frey, born Samuel Frei is a French actor. Perhaps his most famous films are En compagnie d'Antonin Artaud and Bande à part...

     – Prieur des Cordeliers
  • Jacques Lippe – Myers
  • Anna Karina
    Anna Karina
    Anna Karina is a Danish film actress, director, and screenwriter who has spent most of her working life in France. Karina is known as a muse of the director, Jean-Luc Godard, one of the pioneers of the French New Wave...

     – Catherine
  • Philippe Léotard
    Philippe Léotard
    Philippe Léotard was a French actor, poet, and singer....

     – Henri-Maximilien
  • Jean Bouise
    Jean Bouise
    Jean Bouise was a French actor. In the 1950s he helped to found Théâtre de la Cité, and was a player in the company. He entered films in the 1960s, and played a supporting roles in The Shameless Old Lady, Z, L'Aveu, Out 1 and The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Section spéciale...

     – Campanus
  • Marie-Christine Barrault
    Marie-Christine Barrault
    Marie-Christine Barrault is a French actress, who has appeared in 45 films and numerous television productions.Born in Paris, she got her start on television, in L'Œuvre, in 1967 and in the series Que ferait donc Faber? Her film debut was in 1969 in My Night at Maud's in 1969.In 1970 Barrault...

     – Hilzonde
  • Marie-France Pisier
    Marie-France Pisier
    Marie-France Pisier was a French actress. She appeared in numerous films of the French New Wave and twice earned the national César Award for Best Supporting Actress.-Life and career:...

     – Martha
  • Mathieu Carrière
    Mathieu Carrière
    Mathieu Carrière is a German actor.Carrière grew up in Berlin and Lübeck; he attended the Jesuit boarding school Lycée Saint-François-Xavier in Vannes, France, a school which had previously been attended by the director of Carrière's first major film, Volker Schlöndorff. In 1969 Carrière moved to...

     – Pierre de Hamaere
  • Pierre Dherte – Cyprien
  • Johan Leysen – Rombaut
  • Dora van der Groen
    Dora van der Groen
    Dora van der Groen is a Belgian actress. She has appeared in 120 films and television shows since 1945. She starred in the 1975 film Dokter Pulder zaait papavers, which was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival....

     – Greete
  • Senne Rouffaer – Le Cocq
  • Geert Desmet – Han
  • Michel Poncelet – Josse

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