''It Only Happens to Others'' (french: Ça n'arrive qu'aux autres) is a 1971
drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been ...
film written and directed by
Nadine Trintignant.
The film was made in the wake of the death of Nadine and
Jean-Louis Trintignant's daughter Pauline in 1969.
Cast
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Catherine Deneuve as Catherine
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Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (28 September 1924 – 19 December 1996) was an Italian film actor, regarded as one of his country's most iconic male performers of the 20th century. He played leading roles for many of Italy's top di ...
as Marcello
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Serge Marquand as Catherine's brother
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Dominique Labourier
Dominique Labourier (born 29 April 1943) is a French actress. Born in Reims, France, she is best known outside France for starring as Julie in Jacques Rivette's film '' Celine and Julie Go Boating'' (''Céline et Julie vont en bateau'', 1974). ...
as Marguerite
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Danièle Lebrun as Sophie
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Catherine Allégret
Catherine Allégret (born 16 April 1946) is a French actress. She is the daughter of Simone Signoret and Yves Allégret.Becker, Frawley (2004) ''And the Stars Spoke Back: A Dialogue Coach Remembers Hollywood Players of the Sixties in Paris'', Sca ...
as mother in park
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Marc Eyraud
Marc Eyraud (1 March 1924 – 15 February 2005) was a French film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1956 and 1995.
Partial filmography
* ''Plucking the Daisy'' (1956) - Un photographe (uncredited)
* ''The Man in the Raincoat'' (1957) ...
* Rosa Chiara Magrini as Marcello's sister
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Benoît Ferreux
Benoît Ferreux (; born 29 September 1955) is a French film, television and stage actor who is possibly best recalled internationally for his role in the 1971 film ''Murmur of the Heart''.
Career as a child actor
Benoît Ferreux was born in Bordea ...
as little girl
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Marie Trintignant
Marie Trintignant (; 21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003) was a French film and stage actress. She appeared in over 30 movies during the span of her 36-year career. Her family was deeply involved in France's film industry, as her father was an acto ...
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Catherine Hiegel
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Edouard Niermans as young man
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Andrée Damant
Andrée Damant (20 September 1929 – 6 December 2022) was a French actress.
Life and career
Damant starred in many commercials. She also specialized in the roles of sympathetic Méridionales often Marseillaises pure strain, which led from time ...
as nurse
References
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1971 films
1971 drama films
1970s French films
1970s French-language films
1970s Italian films
Films about grieving
Films directed by Nadine Trintignant
French drama films
French-language Italian films
Italian drama films
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