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The Widow of Saint-Pierre ( French: La veuve de Saint-Pierre) is a 2000 film by Patrice Leconte with Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil and Emir Kusturica. Loosely inspired by an actual case, it tells the story of a disillusioned army officer whose love for his wife in her efforts to save a convicted murderer leads him to disobey orders.
Apr 13, 2001 · Widow of St. Pierre: Directed by Patrice Leconte. With Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil, Emir Kusturica, Michel Duchaussoy. In a small French colony, a drunken man kills someone. While a guillotine is being shipped in, he changes, becoming a good and popular man.
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- Drama, History, Romance
- Patrice Leconte
- 2001-04-13
In 1850 on the small, isolated Canadian island of Saint Pierre, a sailor, Neel Auguste, murders a man and receives the death penalty after a quick trial. Saint Pierre lacks the necessary tools for an execution, however, so while they wait for a guillotine to arrive from Paris, Neel Auguste moves...
- Patrice Leconte
- Juliette Binoche
Mar 30, 2001 · The Widow of Saint-Pierre. A man gets drunk and commits a senseless murder. He is condemned to death by guillotine. But in the 1850s on a small French fishing island off the coast of Newfoundland, there is no guillotine, and no executioner.
Apr 19, 2000 · An unconventional love story told with delicacy and power, “The Widow of Saint-Pierre” is a sweeping costumer shot through with issues and considerations that are as pertinent today as they...
In 1850, in Saint-Pierre, a small French island near Canada, a man is brutally murdered. The murderer, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to die in the guillotine. But they must wait for the lethal instrument to arrive from Paris.
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It’s 1850 on the French island of Saint-Pierre. When two fishermen are arrested for murder, the grisly punishment — execution by guillotine — proves unusually difficult to fulfil.
