This black-and-white film explores the dividing line between the theatrical imagination and everyday reality in its story of a narcissistic silent movie actor who believes his screen image as a great lover but is in fact a confused bisexual. His girlfriend, also an actress, is also caught up in the fuzzy space between fantasy and reality but feels this as a loss and tries to do something about it.
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24 people
Martine Simonet
Nora Legri
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Vicente Criado
Antonio Romano
Fanny Berchaux
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Natalie Perrey
Jean-Louis Jorge
Maud Molyneux
Anna
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Ramón F. Suárez
Vincente Criado
Antonio Romano
Benoît Ferreux
Johnny
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Murmur of the Heart
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Jean-Paul Loublier
Manuela Miranda
La Manuelita
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Jean-Louis Jorge Director · Ramón F. Suárez Cinematographer Dominique Smadja Editor
First release April 10, 1976 · Produced in France · Original title Mélodrame
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CECRT
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France
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Languages
Original title
Mélodrame
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · April 10, 1976
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Dominican Republic
February 7, 1980
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