''Sachs' Disease'' (original title: ''La Maladie de Sachs'') is a 1999 French
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super ...
directed by
Michel Deville
Michel Deville (born 13 April 1931) is a French film director and screenwriter.
Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and int ...
from a novel by
Martin Winckler. It won the
French Syndicate of Cinema Critics
The French Syndicate of Cinema Critics (french: Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma et des films de télévision) has, each year since 1946, awarded a prize (" Prix de la critique", English: "Critics Prize"), the Prix Méliès, to the be ...
Prix Méliès, and received César nominations for Best Actor, Best Director and Best Writing.
Plot
Dr. Bruno Sachs, the only medical practitioner in a small French town, seems on the surface to be compassionate and dedicated. However, in private he is not happy in his work and does not like most of his patients, which include a heart patient who refuses life-saving surgery, and a man whose wife wants sex three times a day, the strain of which is causing his body to wear out. To supplement his income, Dr. Sachs performs abortions in a nearby town. Here he meets Pauline Kasser, a young woman, and they are attracted to each other. While she is not interested in a traditional courtship, she would like to consummate their relationship. A few days later she bumps into him in a book shop, and their relationship seems to start to blossom.
Cast
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Albert Dupontel
Albert Dupontel (; born 11 January 1964) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Following his father's path, he studied medicine but eventually switched to theater, disillusioned by hospital life. He started his career as a stand-u ...
- Doctor Bruno Sachs
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Valérie Dréville - Pauline Kasser
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Dominique Reymond
Dominique Reymond (born 12 February 1957) is a French actress. She has appeared in more than seventy films since 1984.
She has been to the Geneva Conservatory.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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- Madame Leblanc
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Étienne Bierry - M. Renard
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Nathalie Boutefeu
Nathalie Boutefeu (born 1968) is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. She has appeared in 40 films since 1990. She starred in the film '' The Butterfly's Dream'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1994 Can ...
- Viviane
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Béatrice Bruno Béatrice is a French feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:
* Béatrice Bonifassi (born c. 1971), French-born vocalist
* Béatrice Dalle (born 1964), French actress
* Béatrice de Camondo (1894–1944), French socialite and a ...
- Angèle Pujade
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Gilles Charmot - Georges
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Christine Brücher - Annie's mother
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Cécile Arnaud - Madame Bailly's neighbor
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Serge Riaboukine
Serge Riaboukine (born 29 December 1957) is a French actor.
Theatre
Filmography
References
External links
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1957 births
Living people
French male film actors
French male television actors
French pe ...
- The drunk
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Albert Delpy
Albert Delpy (born 13 September 1941) is a Vietnamese-born French actor and writer. He has appeared in more than one hundred films since 1970.
Personal life
He is the father of Julie Delpy and has appeared as her on-screen father in '' 2 Days in ...
- The pharmacy client
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Nicolas Marié
Nicolas Marié is a French actor and writer.
Theater
Filmography
Dubbing
References
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French male film actors
Living people
20th-century French male actors
21st-century Frenc ...
- The fireman's captain
References
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1999 films
Films directed by Michel Deville
Medical-themed films
1999 drama films
French drama films
Films based on French novels
1990s French films
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