Born in 68
Film poster
Directed by	Olivier Ducastel Jacques Martineau
Written by	Catherine Corsini Olivier Ducastel Guillaume Le Touze Jacques Martineau
Produced by	Lola Gans Philippe Martin
Starring	Laetitia Casta Yannick Renier Yann Trégouët
Cinematography	Matthieu Poirot-Delpech
Edited by	Dominique Galliéni
Music by	Philippe Miller
Distributed by	Pyramide Distribution
Release date	21 May 2008 (2008-05-21)
Running time	173 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Budget	€4.6 million[1]
Box office	$538,748[2]

Born in 68 (original title: Nés en 68) is a 2008 French drama film directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau. The film has the sub-title 'Nous nous aimerons jusqu'à la mort' ('We will love each other until death').

Plot summary

In 1968 Catherine, Yves and Hervé are 20, all students in Paris; the May revolt up-ends their lives. They attempt to form their own community with friends on an abandoned farm in the Lot. Their need for freedom and individual fulfilment leads them to make choices which separates them in the end with Catherine alone remaining at the farm. In 1989 the children of Catherine and Yves become adults in a world that has profoundly changed: with the end of communism and the AIDS epidemic, they revisit the militant legacy of the previous generation. Much like their parents before them, they begin to question the generation that preceded them, while fighting for a better world than the one into which they were born.

Cast

• Laetitia Casta as Catherine
• Yannick Renier as Yves
• Yann Trégouët as Hervé
• Christine Citti as Maryse
• Marc Citti as Serge
• Édouard Collin as Christophe
• Fejria Deliba as Dalila
• Gaëtan Gallier as Michel
• Sabrina Seyvecou as Ludmilla, the daughter of Catherine and Yves
• Théo Frilet as Boris, the son of Catherine and Yves
• Osman Elkharraz as Joseph, the son of Dalila and Michel
• Slimane Yefsah as Farivar, Ludmilla's husband
• Matthias Van Khache as Jean-Paul
• Thibault Vinçon as Vincent, friend of Boris
• Marilyne Canto as Dominique, Yves's partner
• Alain Fromager as Antoine, Catherine's friend
• Olivia Côte as Bernadette
• Sophie Barjac as Catherine's mother
• Pierre-Loup Rajot as Catherine's father

Awards and nominations

Cabourg Film Festival

• Golden Swann - Best Actress (Laetitia Casta) and Best Male Newcomer (Yannick Renier).^[3]

Release

Originally finished as two 100-minute episodes which were scheduled on Arte, and France 2 during 2009, a 170-minute shorter version was offered to the Cannes Film Festival organizers, in relation to the 40th anniversary of the 1968 events.^[4] A DVD of this cinema version was released in 2010.^[5]