Year			2004
Original lang.			French
Country			France
Genre			Drama
Rating			18A
Parents			Violence, sexual content
Length			2:14
Director			Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer			Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Company			Warner Independent Pictures
Starring			Audrey Tautou Gaspard Ulliel Dominique Pinon Clovis Cornillac alias Cet Homme Jérôme Kircher Show more... Audrey Tautou Gaspard Ulliel Dominique Pinon Clovis Cornillac alias Cet Homme Jérôme Kircher Chantal Neuwirth Albert Dupontel Denis Lavant Jean-Pierre Becker Dominique Bettenfeld Jean-Pierre Darroussin alias Biscotte Marion Cotillard André D

From the director and star of "Amelie" (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Audrey Tautou) comes a very different love story, "A Very Long Engagement," based on the acclaimed novel by Sebastien Japrisot. The film is set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisian halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl. It tells the story of this young woman's relentless, moving and sometimes comic search for her fiancée, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. What follows is an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.