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The Return of Martin Guerre (Le retour de Martin Guerre)
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | January 1, 1983 |
| Running time: | 123 minutes |
| Cast: | Nathalie Baye, Gerard Depardieu, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu |
| Director: | Daniel Vigne |
Description: The Return of Martin Guerre is set in France during the Hundred Years' War. Imagining herself a widow, Nathalie Baye is astonished when her husband Gerard Depardieu returns after nine years. He looks like her husband and sounds like her husband, and certainly has a working knowledge of the couple's prior relationship. Still, neither Baye nor her neighbors can shake the notion that Depardieu is an imposter--especially since he's a much nicer and more responsible person than the man who marched off to war so long ago. Matters come to a head when the local magistrate sentences Depardieu to hang for his own murder. Return of Martin Guerre was the principal source for an American film, Sommersby (1993).~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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