Solemn Communion

Solemn Communion (1977)

ComedyDrama

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.

Director: René Féret

Casts

	Ariane Ascaride as Palmyre Blanchard-Lhomme
	Yveline Ailhaud as MariePaulet-Lhomme
	Vincent Pinel as Leon Gravet
	Andrée Tainsy as Charlotte Fourcignie
	Christian Drillaud as Charles Gravet (jeune)
	Claude Bouchery as Jules Ternolain
	Isabelle Caillard as Josette Dauchy (jeune)
	Patrick Fierry as François Dauchy (jeune)
	Véronique Silver as Josette Dauchy (40 ans)
	Marcel Dalio as Charles Gravet (vieux)
	Myriam Boyer as Léone Gravet-Rux
	Manuel Strosser as Julien Gravet III
	Barbara Lemaire as Odette Descamps-Gravet
	Pierre Banderet as Pierre Gravet
	Sylviane Nicolas as Léonore Dauchy (jeune)
	Roland Amstutz as Raoul Lhomme
	Nathalie Baye as Jeanne Vanderberghe
	Philippe Léotard as Jacques Gravet
	Monique Chaumette as Lise Paulet-Dauchy (40 ans)
	Guillaume Lebel as Julien Gravet II
	Jenny Clève as Lucie Fourcignie-Ternolain
	Pierre Forget as François Dauchy (50 ans)
	Serge Reggiani as Le récitant chanteur (voice)
	Philippe Nahon as Un syndicaliste
	Denise Péron as La gouvernante
	Coline Serreau as
	René Féret as Julien Gravet I
	André Marcon as Lucien Gravet

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