1999

2h 43m

6.3(64 votes)

Drama

Overview

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.

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Cast & Crew

54 members

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Catherine Deneuve

Odette

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Emmanuelle Béart

Gilberte

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Vincent Perez

Morel

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John Malkovich

Baron de Charlus

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Pascal Greggory

Saint-Loup

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Marcello Mazzarella

Marcel

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Marie-France Pisier

Madame Verdurin

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Chiara Mastroianni

Albertine

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Arielle Dombasle

Madame de Farcy

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Édith Scob

Oriane de Guermantes

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Elsa Zylberstein

Rachel

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Christian Vadim

Bloch

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Melvil Poupaud

Prince of Foix

Writing

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Goncourt

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Jean-François Lapalus

Café de la Paix's head waiter

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Dominique Labourier

Madame Cottard

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Philippe Morier-Genoud

Monsieur Cottard

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Mathilde Seigner

Céleste

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Jacques Pieiller

Jupien

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Hélène Surgère

Françoise

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André Engel

Marcel old

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Georges Du Fresne

Marcel child

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Monique Mélinand

Marcel's grandmother

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Laurence Février

Marcel's mother

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Jean-François Balmer

Uncle Adolphe

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Pierre Mignard

Marcel as a teenager

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Lucien Pascal

Prince of Guermantes

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Jérôme Prieur

Monsieur Verdurin

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Bernard Pautrat

Swann

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Ingrid Caven

Russian Princess

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Jean-Claude Jay

Duke of Guermantes

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Camille Du Fresne

Gilberte as a child

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Alain Rimoux

Monsieur Bontemps

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Alain Guillo

Great fashion designer

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Xavier Briere

Marcel the head waiter

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Bernard Garnier

Cambremer

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Monique Couturier

Marquise de Villeparisis

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Isa Mercure

Madame Bontemps

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Pierre-Alain Chapuis

Head witer of the Guermantes

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Damien Odoul

Gaspard, cook at the Café de la Paix

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Daniel Isoppo

Manager of the Balbec hotel

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Patrice Juiff

Young waiter at the Balbec hotel

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Pascal Tokatlian

Hotel Balbec lift operator

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Marine Delterme

Morelc's friend

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Jean Badin

Rachel's husband

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Laurent Schwaar

Maurice

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Alexandre Soulié

Louis, military

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Sébastien Libessart

The Zèrne military

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Fabrice Cals

Employee Jupien

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Hervé Falloux

Monsieur Redingote

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Francis Leplay

Employee Jupien

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Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre

Gilberte's daughter

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Diane Dassigny

Pianist at the Bal de Têtes

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Alain Duclos

Uncle Adolphe's valet

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