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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Cinemax
110 minutes
2007
Biography
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Drama
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.
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Czech,
English,
audio commentary
Czech,
English
2007
Biography
/
Drama
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.
Creators
Ronald Harwood,
Julian Schnabel
Cast
Mathieu Amalric,
Marina Hands,
Marie-Josée Croze,
Hiam Abbass,
Niels Arestrup,
Lenny Kravitz,
Jean-Philippe Écoffey,
Zinedine Soualem,
Jean-Pierre Cassel,
Anne Consigny,
Gérard Watkins,
Patrick Chesnais,
Michael Wincott,
Françoise Lebrun,
Anne Alvaro,
Emmanuelle Seigner,
Elvis Polanski,
Talina Boyaci,
François Delaive,
Fiorella Campanella,
Isaach De Bankolé,
Emma de Caunes,
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre,
Sydow Max von,
Agathe de La Fontaine,
Jean-Baptiste Mondino,
Nicolas Le Riche,
Azzedine Alaïa,
Olatz López Garmendia,
Théo Sampaio,
Marie Meyer,
Ilze Bajare,
Anna Chyzh