Édith et Marcel
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Plot

In 1947, the singer Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...

 and the boxer Marcel Cerdan
Marcel Cerdan
Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan was a French pied noir world boxing champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best to have learned his craft in Africa...

 are both at the peak of their respective careers. Their encounter gives birth to a passionate love affair lasting some two years, cut short by Cerdan's death in an air crash.

Technical details

  • Title: Édith et Marcel
  • Director: Claude Lelouch
  • Music: Francis Lai
    Francis Lai
    Francis Lai is a French accordionist, and composer noted for his film scores.While in his twenties, Francis Lai left home and went to Paris where he became part of the lively Montmartre music scene...

  • Length: 140 minutes
  • Release date: April 13, 1983

Cast

  • Évelyne Bouix
    Evelyne Bouix
    Évelyne Bouix is a French film actress and stage actress. She has appeared in 61 films from 1970.She was made Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1999.-Selected filmography:* Les Misérables...

     : Édith Piaf
    Édith Piaf
    Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...

     / Margot de Villedieu
  • Jacques Villeret
    Jacques Villeret
    Jacques Villeret was a French actor.-Early life and Family:Born Jacky Boufroura in Loches, Indre-et-Loire, France, to an Algerian father and a French mother, he is most famous internationally for his role as François Pignon in Le Dîner de Cons, both on the stage and in the later film...

     : Jacques Barbier
  • Francis Huster
    Francis Huster
    Francis Huster is a French stage, film and television actor, film director and scriptwriter.-Biography:Francis Huster was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He studied acting at the Conservatoire of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, at the Cours Florent and at the Conservatoire national , where he had...

     : Francis Roman
  • Jean-Claude Brialy
    Jean-Claude Brialy
    Jean-Claude Brialy – died 30 May 2007, Monthyon, Seine-et-Marne, France was a French actor, director, and socialite.-Biography:...

     : Loulou Barbier
  • 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...

     : Lucien Roupp
  • Marcel Cerdan Jr : Marcel Cerdan
    Marcel Cerdan
    Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan was a French pied noir world boxing champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best to have learned his craft in Africa...

  • Charles Gérard
    Charles Gérard
    Charles Gérard is a French actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1957. In many fims he worked with director Claude Lelouch.-Selected filmography:- External links :...

     : Charlot
  • Charlotte de Turckheim
    Charlotte de Turckheim
    Anne-Charlotte de Turckheim is a French actress, screenwriter, comedian and film producer. Born in Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Seine-et-Marne, France, the daughter of Françoise Husson and Arnaud de Turckheim, a member of a noble Protestant family from Alsace, Charlotte de Turckheim studied theater...

     : Ginou Richet
  • Micky Sébastian : Marinette Cerdan
  • Maurice Garrel
    Maurice Garrel
    Maurice Garrel was a French film actor.Garrel was born in Saint-Servais, Isère. He appeared in over a hundred films and was nominated twice for a César Award for best supporting actor: in 1991 for La Discrète and in 2005 for Kings and Queen.Garrel was the father of producer Thierry Garrel and...

     : le père de Margot
  • Ginette Garcin
    Ginette Garcin
    Ginette Garcin was a French actress of stage, film and television.-Biography:Ginette Garcin made her musical debut with Jacques Hélian and his orchestra in 1946. She then worked with Loulou Gasté and went on to appear in Strélesky's absurdist theatre revues in Rouen...

     : Guite
  • Philippe Khorsand
    Philippe Khorsand
    Philippe Khorsand was a French actor. His father was Iranian and his mother was French. He first appeared in a number of small roles in the 1970s. One of his most memorable roles as husband and father in Tableau d'honneur .Khorsand died of a hemorrhage at the age of 59 in Paris.-External links:* *...

     : Jo Longman
  • Jany Castaldi : Momône
  • Candice Patou : la sœur de Margot
  • Tanya Lopert : Le professeur d'anglais
  • Charles Aznavour
    Charles Aznavour
    Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...

     : himself
  • Jean Rougerie
  • Beata Tyszkiewicz
    Beata Tyszkiewicz
    Beata Maria Helena Tyszkiewiczówna-Kalenicka is a Polish actress.-Biography:Beata Tyszkiewicz is one of Poland’s quintessentially cinematic beauties, having worked exclusively on the big screen...

  • Fouad Sakete
  • Stéphane Ferrara
  • Dominique Benkouai
  • Michel Chapier
  • Yveline Ailhaud
  • Pierre Aknine
  • Mireille Audibert
  • Jean-Pierre Bacri
    Jean-Pierre Bacri
    Jean-Pierre Bacri is a French actor and screenwriter who frequently works in collaboration with Agnès Jaoui.-Life:One of his earliest film appearances was Subway...

  • Marc Berman
  • François Bernheim
  • Corinne Blue
  • Jean-Claude Bourbault

  • Trivia

    • In the film, the songs of Édith Piaf
      Édith Piaf
      Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...

       are sung by Mama Béa Tékielski.
    • Marcel Cerdan
      Marcel Cerdan
      Marcellin "Marcel" Cerdan was a French pied noir world boxing champion who was considered by many boxing experts and fans to be France's greatest boxer, and beyond to be one of the best to have learned his craft in Africa...

       is played in the film by his son, Marcel Cerdan Jr.
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