Schindler's List
1993 · Drama · History
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Film / 2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Directed by
Julian Schnabel
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
The story
Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.
Cast
Mathieu AmalricJean-Dominique Bauby
Emmanuelle SeignerCéline Desmoulins
Marie-Josée CrozeHenriette Durand
Anne ConsignyClaude
Patrick ChesnaisDr. Lepage
Niels ArestrupRoussin
Olatz López GarmendiaMarie Lopez
Jean-Pierre CasselFather Lucien
Marina HandsJoséphine
Max von SydowPapinou
Isaach de BankoléLaurent
Emma de CaunesEmpress Eugenia
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Jean-Philippe ÉcoffeyDoctor Mercier
Gérard WatkinsDoctor Cocheton
Nicolas Le RicheNinjinski
Théo SampaioThéophile
Fiorella CampanellaCéleste
Talina BoyaciHortense
Anne AlvaroBetty
Françoise LebrunMadame Bauby
Zinedine SoualemJoubert
Laure de Clermont-TonnerreDiane
Agathe de La FontaineInès
Marie MeyerMannequin
Ilze BajareMannequin
Anna ChyzhMannequin
Lenny KravitzHimself
Michael WincottFashion Photographer
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