A Second Chance

Overview

Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living.

Directed by Claude Lelouch

Top cast

Catherine Deneuve

Catherine Berger

Anouk Aimée

Sarah Gordon

Charles Denner

L'avocat

Francis Huster

Patrick

C

Colette Baudot

Lucienne Lanot

J

Jean-Jacques Briot

Simon Berger

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Le bijouter

Valérie Lagrange

M

Manuella Papatakis

La fille de Sarah

Georges Staquet

Jacques Villeret

L'agent immobilier

Niels Arestrup

Henri Lanot

Albina du Boisrouvray

P

Paul Bellaiche

R

Richard Caron

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