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long Sunday of engagement is a novel of Sebastien Japrisot published in 1991, it received the Interallié price. Jean-Pierre Jeunet and the scenario writer Guillaume Laurant drew from it a film in 2003

Biography of the author:

At 18 years, Sebastien Japrisot writes its first novel the mals left . He writes for one period directly for the cinema, he returns to the literature in 1978 with the fatal summer .

Summary

At 8 years, Mathilde becomes acquainted with Manech; the years passing, he becomes the man of his life. Called young person, it leaves to the war in 1917. Not supporting the life in the trenches, Manech car-is mutilated to be demobilized. January 1917: five French soldiers are condemned to died in council of war, of which Manech: they will be thrown over the edge of sliced in No man' S Land. A whole night and a whole day, they will try to survive. With the other end of France, Mathilde always loves this Manech Cornflower of one love the proof all. Come peace, Manech will be carried for death, but it will fight to know the truth and to find it, dead or alive, in the labyrinth where it lost it. Throughout what one will call then the mad years, its research will be its engagement. Mathilde will sacrifice its days to it, and in spite of time, the lies, it will go until the end of the foolish hope which carries it. She will seek it against winds and tides. One at the same time discovers in this book a Mathilde young person, been obstinated and fragile, attaching and upsetting, in the search of his lost love.
Sebastien Japrisot located the meeting of Mathilde and the man which will tell him the circumstances of dead of Manech in the commune of Bernay-Vilbert.

Adaptation

In 2003, Jean-Pierre Jeunet adapted the novel to the cinema. It is a film produced by Warner Bros with as main actors: Audrey Tautou, and Gaspard Ulliel and of many supporting characters like Jean-Pierre Becker, Clovis Cornillard, Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Julie Depardieu, etc Some changes were brought to the scenario compared to the original book.

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