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Release date United States: Friday, November 30, 2007

Director: Julian Schnabel

Cast:

Mathieu Amalric as Jean-Dominique Bauby
Max von Sydow as Papinou
Emmanuelle Seigner as Celine Desmoulins
Marie-Josee Croze as Henriette Durand
Anne Consigny as Claude
Patrick Chesnais as Dr. Lepage
Niels Arestrup as Roussin

About:

Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind

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Producers: Pierre Grunstein Kathleen Kennedy

Writers: Jean-Dominique Bauby (novel) Ronald Harwood (screenplay)

Studio: Miramax Films