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THE CRYSTAL BOOK (LIVRE DE CRISTAL, LE)
DISTR Theatrical, SWITZERLAND PROMO
 
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Completed - Drama

Year of production : 1994

Director(s) : Patricia PLATTNER
Cast : Valeria BRUNI TEDESCHI, Jean-François BALMER

Synopsis

JB (John Billeter), an orientalist of international renown, has agreed to return to Sri-Lanka at UNESCO’s request to decipher the “Crystal Book”, a treaty on the nature of memory dictated by Buddha in his last years. This book represents a challenge to JB and his past, overshadowed by his wife’s suicide. He had met her in Sri-Lanka, a place where love met with tragedy.

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Country(ies) : FRANCE, PORTUGAL, SWITZERLAND

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