French Provincial (Souvenirs d'en France) 49 years old

Director André Téchiné brings his usual obsessions -- including a preoccupation with the fortunes of the bourgeoisie -- to this episodic drama, which serves as a thinly-veiled portrait of France's economic peaks and valleys from the 1930s through the 1970s. Jeanne Moreau stars as Berthe Pedret, a simple laundry woman who marries Hector (Michael Auclair), son of a wealthy, upper class, Spanish immigrant family that owns a successful farm machinery factory. Through a series of vignettes, Techine depicts the passage of years, during which the ambitious working class woman blooms through several bold moves, such as negotiating a workers' strike settlement and using her alliance with the war-time French Resistance movement to increase the enterprise's prestige.

Credits

Jeanne Moreau as Berthe

Julien Guiomar as Victor

Marie-France Pisier as Régina

Michel Auclair as Hector

French Provincial Cast

Name	Character
Jeanne Moreau She was 47, 89 years old when she died	as Berthe
Julien Guiomar He was 47, 82 years old when he died	as Victor
Marie-France Pisier She was 31, 66 years old when she died	as Régina
Michel Auclair He was 52, 65 years old when he died	as Hector

French Provincial Crew

Name	Department
André Téchiné as Director. He was 32 (now 81) years old	Directing

French Provincial (49 years)

Release day: Wednesday, September 03, 1975
Runtime: 90 minutes