Solemn Communion
1977In 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.
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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
René Féret
as Julien Gravet I
André Marcon
as Lucien Gravet