May 23, 2007
112 min
Full-HD

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

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.

Category

Drama History

Country

France United States of America

Companies

Pathé Renn Productions France 3 Cinéma The Kennedy/Marshall Company

Mathieu Amalric

Jean-Dominique Bauby

Emmanuelle Seigner

Céline Desmoulins

Marie-Josée Croze

Henriette Durand

Anne Consigny

Claude

Patrick Chesnais

Dr. Lepage

Niels Arestrup

Roussin

Olatz López Garmendia

Marie Lopez

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Father Lucien

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