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Born in 68
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Wikipedia article
'Born in 68' (original title: 'Ns en 68') is a 2008 French drama film directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. The film has the sub-title 'Nous nous aimerons jusqu' la mort' ('We will love each other until death').
Plot summary
In 1968 Catherine, Yves and Herv are 20, all students in Paris; the May revolt up-ends their lives. They attempt to form their own community with friends on an abandoned farm in the Lot. Their need for freedom and individual fulfilment leads them to make choices which separates them in the end with Catherine alone remaining at the farm. In 1989 the children of Catherine and Yves become adults in a world that has profoundly changed: with the end of communism and the AIDS epidemic, they revisit the militant legacy of the previous generation. Much like their parents before them, they begin to question the generation that preceded them, while fighting for a better world than the one into which they were born.
Cast
*Laetitia Casta as Catherine
*Yannick Renier as Yves
*Yann Trgout as Herv
*Christine Citti as Maryse
*Marc Citti as Serge
*douard Collin as Christophe
*Fejria Deliba as Dalila
*Gatan Gallier as Michel
*Sabrina Seyvecou as Ludmilla, the daughter of Catherine and Yves
*Tho Frilet as Boris, the son of Catherine and Yves
*Osman Elkharraz as Joseph, the son of Dalila and Michel
*Slimane Yefsah as Farivar, Ludmilla's husband
*Matthias Van Khache as Jean-Paul
*Thibault Vinon as Vincent, friend of Boris
*Marilyne Canto as Dominique, Yves's partner
*Alain Fromager as Antoine, Catherine's friend
*Sophie Barjac as Catherine's mother
*Pierre-Loup Rajot as Catherine's father
Awards and nominations
'Cabourg Film Festival'
*Golden Swann - Best Actress (Laetitia Casta) and Best Male Newcomer (Yannick Renier).[https://www.cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/84793/ Ns en 68 steals show at Cabourg] news item at Cineuropa website, accessed 28th July 2022.
Release
Originally finished as two 100-minute episodes which were scheduled on Arte, and France 2 during 2009, a 170-minute shorter version was offered to the Cannes Film Festival organizers, in relation to the 40th anniversary of the 1968 events.[https://www.cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/83475/ Fabien Lemercier: 'Ns en 68' may get theatrical release (11 April 2008), on Cineuropa website] accessed 3 June 2022.
A DVD of this cinema version was released in 2010.[https://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=worldcat_org_dvv&q=N%C3%A9s+en+68&fq=fm%3Advv WorldCat entries for search result on 'Ns en 68'] accessed 15 November 2021.
References
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