A French actress and a Japanese architect have an affair while the actress is making a movie in Hiroshima. Their pasts are slowly re-traced, revealing that his life was destroyed by the atomic bomb which was dropped on the city, and that she was imprisoned as a wartime collaborator. Alain Resnais' first feature. The screenplay is by Maguerite Duras.
Cinematographer: Sacha Vierny
Writer: Marguerite Duras
Actor: Bernard Fresson
Music: Georges Delerue
Actor: Eiji Okada
Director: Alain Resnais
Actor: Emmanuelle Riva
Actor: Stella Dassas
Actor: Pierre Barbaud
Producer: Sacha Kamenka
Producer: Shirakawa Takeo
Producer: Samy Halfron
Cinematographer: Takahashi Michio
Music: Giovanni Fusco