LIFE AFTER DEATH

DRAMA
LIFE AFTER DEATH
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Alain Schwarzstein,
Tv movie
1995
90'
Julie Savigneau is 18, and she is pregnant by five months and one week when she is injured in a road
accident. The foetus is left unharmed, but Julie falls into a coma. After two long weeks, Julie finally opens
her eyes, and there is every reason to hope for a successful recovery. But after another two weeks
complications set in : Julie's heart begins to fail. On June the seventh, she is declared clinically dead. She is
at this point six months, two weeks and five day pregnant. Her child is unharmed but the foetus is not yet
viable. Its survival will from now on depend on the machines to which his mother is still connected. It leaves
the doctors and the family with the agonising decision of whether or not to save the child. A very real
ethical dilemna of our times, inspired by the true story of the "Erlingen Baby" in Germany.
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DIRECTOR
Alain Schwarzstein
CO-PRODUCER
Cinétévé - France 3 - France 2
LENGTH
90'
SUPPORT LOCATION
Super 16 mm couleur
LANGUAGES
Française, sous -titre anglais
AUTHOR
Chantal RENAUD & Michel BOISROND
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CAST
Michèle LAROQUE, RUFUS, Natacha REGNIER, Elizabeth MARGONI, Jean-Marie WINLING
DISTRIBUTION
France Télévision Distribution
Cinétévé 4, quai des Célestins, 75004 Paris France | tel. : +33(0) 1 48 04 30 00 | fax : +33(0) 1 48 04 70 38