The Postmaster's Daughter (1938)

Original title

Nostalgie

Directed by

Victor Tourjansky

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A postmaster in rural France sees his beloved daughter leave with a young officer. The film follows his quiet longing and the changes time brings to their relationship.

melancholicperiod-pieceslow-burntragicromanticpoignantdown-to-earthbittersweet

What happens

The Postmaster's Daughter (French: Nostalgie) is a 1938 French historical drama film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Harry Baur, Janine Crispin and George Rigaud. It is an adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's 1831 short story The Stationmaster. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Serge Piménoff and Georges Wakhévitch. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.