Synopse
In her adaption of the eponymous novel by Milán Füst, Ildikó Enyedi tells a fateful love story in the 1920s. In a Hamburg café, the hard-nosed Dutch sea captain Jakob Störr makes a bet with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in. The wager, made in the exuberance of intoxication, becomes a turning point in Störr’s life when Lizzy (Léa Seydoux) enters the café. The pair marry and move to Paris, but whenever Störr has to go to sea for months at a time, he is consumed with jealousy. And so he desperately tries to bind Lizzy to him.
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Regie
ILDIKÓ ENYEDI (*1955) studied film direction in Budapest and Montpellier. Her debut film My 20th Century won the prize for Best Newcomer at Cannes in 1989. In 2017 she won the Golden Bear for On Body and Soul.
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Info
Original Title: A feleségem története
International Title: The Story of My Wife
Category: Feature
Section: Kaleidoskop
Version & Subtitles: German, English, Flemish OV with German subtitles
Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Cast/Protagonists: Léa Seydoux, Gijs Naber, Louis Garrel, Luna Wedler, Josef Hader, Sergio Rubini, Jasmine Trinca, Ulrich Matthes, Udo Samel
Production country: France, Germany, Italy, Hungary
Year of Production: 2021
Length: 169 min
Producer: Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade, Monika Mécs, Erno Mésterhazy, András Muhi (Inforg - M&M Film), Flaminio Zadra, Pilar Saavedra Perrotta, Alberto Fanni, Stéphane Parthenay, Francis Boespflug, Robin Boespflug-Vonier
Production company: Inforg - M&M Film, Komplizen Film, Palosanto Films, Pyramide Productions
Casting: Irma Ascher, Nina Haun, Lilia Trapani Hartmann
co-production company: Pyramide Productions
World Sales: Films Boutique
Distributor: Tobias Lehmann, Alamode Filmdistribution
