The Return of Martin Guerre

Synopsis

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).

Cast

Nathalie Baye, Gérard Depardieu, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Roger Planchon, André Chaumeau, Maurice Barrier, Stéphane Pean, Sylvie Meda