Going and Coming Back

Going and Coming Back

114 mins | Drama, War | March 27, 1985

Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...

Going and Coming Back

114 mins | Drama, War | March 27, 1985

Going and Coming Back
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers UGC, FR3, Les Films 13
Original title Partir, revenir
Directors Françoise Ebrard, Claude Lelouch
Writers Jérôme Tonnerre

Cast

Annie Girardot

as Hélène Rivière

Jean-Louis Trintignant

as Roland Rivière

Françoise Fabian

as Sarah Lerner

Erik Berchot

as Saloman Lerner

Michel Piccoli

as Simon Lerner

Évelyne Bouix

as Salomé Lerner

Richard Anconina

as Vincent Rivière

Charles Gérard

as Ténardon

Jean Bouise

as Le curé

Denis Lavant

as Le patient de Simon Lerner

Dominique Pinon

as Un villageois

Pierre Semmler

as L'officier allemand

Denise Péron

as Une villageoise

Maryline Even

as Une villageoise

Bernard-Henri Lévy

as Bernard-Henri Lévy

Henri Amouroux

as Self

Bernard Pivot

as Bernard Pivot

Isabelle Sadoyan

as Anna, la gouvernante des Rivière

Ginette Garcin

as La domestique du curé

Marie-Sophie L.

as Angéla

Monique Lange

as Salomé en 1985