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La Nuit de Varennes

That Night in Varennes
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French poster for film
Directed by Ettore Scola
Produced by Renzo Rossellini
Written by Sergio Amidei
Ettore Scola
Based on La Nuit de Varennes ou l'Impossible n'est pas français
by Catherine Rihoit
Starring Jean-Louis Barrault
Marcello Mastroianni
Hanna Schygulla
Harvey Keitel
Music by Armando Trovajoli
Cinematography Armando Nannuzzi
Edited by Raimondo Crociani
Distributed by Triumph Releasing Corporation (USA)
Release date
  • 15 May 1982 (1982-05-15)
Country France
Italy
Language French, Italian

That Night in Varennes (Italian: Il mondo nuovo; French: La Nuit de Varennes) is a 1982 Italian and French drama film directed by Ettore Scola. It is based on a novel by Catherine Rihoit. It tells the story of a fictional meeting between Restif de la Bretonne, Giacomo Casanova, Thomas Paine and Sophie de la Borde (a lady in waiting to the Queen). They are all traveling together in a coach that is a few hours behind the one that is carrying King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in their flight to Varennes during the French Revolution.

The film was entered into the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film by the U.S. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.



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