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Film Synopsis
In the final months of her life, a retired music teacher and her husband of sixty years struggle with the debilitating effects of two strokes on both her health and her quality of life. As Georges cares for the increasingly unhappy Anne, the pair finds the nature of their life together irrevocably changed.
Academy Awards History
This is the fourth Academy Award nomination for Austria. Previous nominations were:
REVANCHE (2008)
Nominee, Foreign Language Film
THE COUNTERFEITERS (2007)
Winner, Foreign Language Film
"38" (1986)
Nominee, Foreign Language Film
Nominee Questionnaire
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Thank you very much for this honor. I have to thank Michael Barker, Tom Bernard from Sony Classics, thank you very much. Thank you to my producers, they are here, all… Margaret Menegoz, Michael Katz, Veit Heiduschka and Stefan Arndt. Thank you to my great crew. Thank you to my wife, she was a member of the crew. She’s supporting me since 30 years. You are the center of my life. And thank you above all to my both main actors, Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant because without them I will not stay here. Thank you.