The Age of Potential

May 4, 1996

1h 42m

★ 6.6

Overview

Ten young people (boys and girls) at the age at which all is possible. They meet, they love, they choose. The film comes and goes between all those people, revealing their anguish, their dreams, depicting the portrait of a generation of the '90s which has both the fury and the fear of life.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Production Companies

Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo

Théâtre national de Strasbourg

La Sept-Arte

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Cast

Agnes

Anne Cantineau

Beatrice

Christèle Tual

Catherine

Anne Caillere

Denise

Isabelle Olive

Emmanuelle

Sandrine Attard

Frederic

Antoine Mathieu

Gerard

Nicolas Pirson

Henri

Arnaud Simon

Ivan

David Gouhier

Jacques

Jérémie Oler

Girl in bus

Marie Mure

Girl visiting

Delphine Raoult

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