''The History of Love'' is a 2016 internationally co-produced

romantic drama film Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion (emotion), passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typica ...

directed by

Radu Mihăileanu Radu Mihăileanu (born 23 April 1958) is a Romanian-born French film director and screenwriter. He left Romania in 1980 and graduated the IDHEC cinematographic institute in Paris. In addition to his work in the cinema he published a book of poe ...

and written by Mihăileanu and Marcia Romano, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by

Nicole Krauss Nicole Krauss (born August 18, 1974) is an American author best known for her four novels '' Man Walks into a Room'' (2002), ''The History of Love'' (2005), ''Great House'' (2010) and '' Forest Dark'' (2017), which have been translated into 35 l ...

. The film stars

Derek Jacobi Sir Derek George Jacobi (; born 22 October 1938) is an English actor. He has appeared in various stage productions of William Shakespeare such as ''Hamlet'', ''Much Ado About Nothing'', ''Macbeth'', ''Twelfth Night'', ''The Tempest'', ''King ...

Sophie Nélisse Marie-Sophie Nélisse (born March 27, 2000) is a Canadian actress. She is known for her Genie Award–winning performance in ''Monsieur Lazhar'', as Liesel Meminger in the film adaptation of the best-selling novel ''The Book Thief'', written by ...

Gemma Arterton Gemma Christina Arterton (born 2 February 1986) is an English actress and producer. After her stage debut in Shakespeare's ''Love's Labour's Lost'' at the Globe Theatre (2007), Arterton made her feature film debut in the comedy ''St Trinian's'' ...

and

Elliott Gould Elliott Gould (; né Goldstein; born August 29, 1938) is an American actor. He began acting in Hollywood films during the 1960s. Elliott's breakthrough role was in the ''Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice'' (1969), for which he received a nomination f ...

Cast

as Léo Gursky *

Mark Rendall Mark Rendall (born October 21, 1988) is a Canadian film, television and voice actor whose roles include the lead in the 2004 film, ''Childstar'' and Mick in season 1 of the Canadian television drama series ''ReGenesis''. He played Bastian Bux i ...

as young Léo Gursky *

as Alma Singer *

as Alma Mereminski *

as Bruno Leibovitch * Corneliu Ulici as young Bruno Leibovitch *

Torri Higginson Sarah Victoria "Torri" Higginson (born December 6, 1969) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her roles in the ''TekWar'' movies and series, and for portraying Dr. Elizabeth Weir in ''Stargate SG-1'' and ''Stargate Atlantis'' (2004–20 ...

as Charlotte Singer * William Ainscough as Bird Singer *

Alex Ozerov Alex Ozerov (born 1992) is a Canadian actor. He is most noted for his performance in the short film '' Pyotr495'', for which he won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Performance in a Digital Program or Series at the 7th Canadian Screen Awar ...

as Misha Strumann * Jamie Bloch as Zoey Schwartz * Claudiu Maier as Zvi Litvinoff * Daniel Matmor as Dr. Zilberstein *

Jean-Carl Boucher Jean-Carl Boucher (born February 19, 1994) is a Canadian actor and filmmaker from Quebec, best known for his role as Diego Molina on the show '' Tactik''. He has also starred in '' A No-Hit No-Run Summer (Un été sans point ni coup sûr)'' and '' ...

as Herman Connor * Simona Maican as Rosa * Julian Bailey as Jeff * Cary Lawrence as Hilary *

Peter Spence Peter Spence (born 24 April 1944) is an England, English journalist and writer. He is perhaps best known for creating and writing the British sitcom ''To the Manor Born''. Early life Born in 1944, Peter Spence was educated at Bromsgrove School ...

as Bernard Moritz

Production

''The History of Love'' was shot in various locations, including

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and

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