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Lest We Forget

7.0 112 mins Documentary   Drama   1991
Amnesty International   Les Films du Paradoxe  
Director(s): Dominique Dante Bernard Giraudeau René Allio Jacques Doillon Jane Birkin Raymond Depardon Bertrand Tavernier Nadine Trintignant Jacques Deray Denis Amar Costa-Gavras Coline Serreau Sarah Moon Jean Becker Jean-Michel Carré Claire Denis Jean-Luc Godard Anne-Marie Miéville Philippe Muyl Alain Corneau Michel Piccoli Alain Resnais Jean-Loup Hubert Robert Kramer Michel Deville Gérard Frot-Coutaz Francis Girod Patrice Leconte Patrice Chéreau Chantal Akerman Romain Goupil Martine Franck

Release Date: 11 Wed, Dec 1991

A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.

Casts of Lest We Forget

Emmanuelle Béart

as Self (segment "Pour Nguyen Chi Thien, Vietnam")

Youssou N'Dour

as Self (segment "Pour Augustine Eke, Nigeria")

Jane Birkin

as Self - Narrator (segment "Pour Maria Nonna Santa Clara, Philippines")

Sami Frey

as Self (segment "Pour Alirio de Jesús Pedraza Becerra, Colombie")

Henri Cartier-Bresson

as Self - Narrator (segment "Pour Mamadou Bâ, Mauritanie")

Gérald Thomassin

as Self (segment "Pour Anstraum Aman Villagrán Morales, Guatemala")

Charlotte Gainsbourg

as Self (segment "Pour Crisanto Mederos, Venezuela")

Carole Bouquet

as Self (segment "Pour Andreas Christodoulou, Grèce")

Adolf Hitler

as Self (segment "Pour Andreas Christodoulou, Grèce") (archive footage) (uncredited)

Edgar Morin

as Self - Narrator (segment "Pour 'Ali Muhammad al-Qajiji, Lybie")

Philippe Noiret

as Self (segment "Pour Joaquim Elema Boringue, Guinée Équatoriale")

Isabelle Huppert

as Self (segment "Pour Archana Guha, Inde")

Haroun Tazieff

as Self (segment "Pour Mulugetta Mosissa, Éthiopie")

Mulugetta Mosissa

as Self (segment "Pour Mulugetta Mosissa, Éthiopie")

Anny Duperey

as Self (segment "Pour Ghassan Najjar, Syrie")

Alexandre Minkowski

as Self (segment "Pour Abraham Serfaty, Maroc")

André Rousselet

as Self (segment "Pour Thomas Wainggai, Indonésie")

Bruno Masure

as Self (segment "Pour Stanza Bopape, Afrique du Sud")

Paul Amar

as Self (segment "Pour Wang Xizhe, Chine")

Abbé Pierre

as Self (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean, USA")

Alex Descas

as Dalton Prejean (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean, USA")

Guy Bedos

as Self (segment "Pour Alexandre Goldovitch, URSS")

Alain Souchon

as Self (segment "Pour Ushari Ahmed Mahmoud, Soudan")

Bernard Stasi

as Self (segment "Pour Vythialingam Skandarajah, Royaume Uni")

Claude Cheysson

as Self (segment "Pour Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin, Israël")

Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin

as Self (segment "Pour Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin, Israël")

Hubert Reeves

as Self (segment "Pour Fidel Intusca Fernandez, Pérou")

François Jacob

as Self (segment "Pour Esteban González González, Cuba")

Fidel Castro

as Self (segment "Pour Esteban González González, Cuba") (archive footage) (uncredited)

Catherine Deneuve

as Self (segment "Pour Febe Elisabeth Velásquez, El Salvador")

Marie Trintignant

as Self (segment "Pour José Ramón Garciá Gómez, Mexique")

Robert Badinter

as Self (segment "Pour Kim Song-Man, Corée du Sud")

MC Solaar

as Self (segment "Pour Kim Song-Man, Corée du Sud")

Saï Saï

as Self (segment "Pour Kim Song-Man, Corée du Sud")

Anouk Grinberg

as Self (segment "Pour Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar")

Jacques Higelin

as Self (segment "Pour Vera Chirwa, Malawi")

Michel Piccoli

as Self (segment "Pour Nasrin Rasooli, Iran")

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