Solemn Communion (1977)
In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.
Cast
Palmyre Blanchard-Lhomme
MariePaulet-Lhomme
Léone Gravet-Rux
Julien Gravet III
Odette Descamps-Gravet
Pierre Gravet
Léonore Dauchy (jeune)
Raoul Lhomme
Jeanne Vanderberghe
Jacques Gravet
Lise Paulet-Dauchy (40 ans)
Julien Gravet II
Leon Gravet
Lucie Fourcignie-Ternolain
François Dauchy (50 ans)
Le récitant chanteur (voice)
Un syndicaliste
La gouvernante
Julien Gravet I
Lucien Gravet
Charlotte Fourcignie
Charles Gravet (jeune)
Jules Ternolain
Josette Dauchy (jeune)
François Dauchy (jeune)
Josette Dauchy (40 ans)
Charles Gravet (vieux)
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