The Long Absence
1961 · 85 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 1,143 VOTES · DIR. Henri Colpi
Overview
Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times.
Dialogue Timeline — 714 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:01 The film we present to you won First Prize
00:08:03 Well our Nencini... has he won yet?
00:09:39 - Get back alive! - I'm going straight home.
00:12:51 Rest assured, everything will be fine.
00:16:46 Tell me, Thérèse...
00:22:02 I see you going by.
00:23:32 Either you were a singer or you weren't. You ought to know.
00:37:13 Not possibly.
00:51:10 It's good.
00:54:05 Yes, Albert Langlois...
00:55:46 - at Chaulieu-sur-Loire? - No.
00:58:36 - Not always. - Yes. Always.
01:00:13 - How did he get his papers? - Oh, you know...
01:02:53 It was late.
01:05:53 Yes.
01:11:55 And it's a real dinner.
01:14:14 I was thinking...
01:16:13 It was in the daytime.
01:18:04 You have a bit of a headache.
01:23:44 Three times...
01:25:20 it might be nice to be able to remember it...
01:29:40 Don't you remember?
01:32:12 Yes.
01:37:58 I'll have to wait till the winter...
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed714
Dialogue density8.4 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line01:37:58
Production Record
DirectorHenri Colpi
LanguageFrench
IMDb votes1,143