"The Blood of Others," based on the novel by Simone de Beauvoir, will be brought to the screen with an international cast headed by Jodie Foster, Michael Ontkean, Michael York, Lambert Wilson, and Stephane Audran. The film will be directed by Claude Chabrol from a screenplay by Brian Moore.The international co-production is the story of two young people in love in war-torn France, facing the ultimate sacrifice. It is a consuming love affair and a dramatic suspense story. Moment by moment, twist by twist, the suspense and tension build to heights of courage and heroism, reflecting everyone's responsibility for their own lives and other's deaths.

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It seems that this film was originally made as a three-hour TV mini-series. This cinema version is approx. 40 minutes shorter. The production design for this film is unclear to me. In what stage was the feature film planned? The history is full of these kind of productions, where the dramaturgical structure is made so that you can edit both a TV series and a feature film from the material. The best known is DAS BOOT, FANNY & ALEXANDER, CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI and WHEN FATHER WAS AWAY ON BUSINESS. Usually the dramaturgical structure doesn't function in the best possible way on the feature film. Instead of having a culmination in the end of the film, we get one, every-time one TV part is ended, and often these films have a three - four part structure!

Per-Olof Strandberg