![]() He managed to “fool” Martin’s wife, Bertrande (Nathalie Bayes), and the entire village for so long that once enough doubt over his true identity was sown, it still required two trials and an appeal to the highest court in France’s Languedoc area, the Parlement de Toulouse, to find out the truth about the matter. ![]() Martin Guerre is not a romantic tale, but tells a case of identity fraud where a man, Arnauld du Tihl (Gérard Depardieu), successfully lived the life of a Martin Guerre (Bernard-Pierre Donnadeu) after the latter had abandoned his wife and land for more than a decade. French director Daniel Vigne, however, brings the lives of sixteenth-century peasants and merchants to the foreground with La Retour de Martin Guerre ( The Return of Martin Guerre), released in 1982. ![]() ![]() No matter how many shots of knights and kings gallivanting off to fight in battle and clerics contemplating God in their cloistered abbeys, the peasantry is always pushed to the fringes of the scene. ![]()
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