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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating stroke at age 43. The damage to his brain stem results in locked-in syndrome, with which he is almost completely paralyzed and only able to communicate by blinking an eye. Bauby painstakingly dictates his memoir via the only means of expression left to him.

2007 |1h 52m |  Drama, History

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Cast

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Mathieu Amalric

Jean-Dominique Bauby

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Emmanuelle Seigner

Céline Desmoulins

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Marie-Josée Croze

Henriette Durand

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Anne Consigny

Claude

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Patrick Chesnais

Dr. Lepage

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Niels Arestrup

Roussin

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Jean-Pierre Cassel

Father Lucien

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Marina Hands

Joséphine

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Max von Sydow

Papinou

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Isaach de Bankolé

Laurent

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Emma de Caunes

Empress Eugenia

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Jean-Philippe Écoffey

Doctor Mercier

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Gérard Watkins

Doctor Cocheton

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Fiorella Campanella

Céleste

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Talina Boyaci

Hortense

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Anne Alvaro

Betty

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Françoise Lebrun

Madame Bauby

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Zinedine Soualem

Joubert

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Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre

Diane

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Agathe de La Fontaine

Inès

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Marie Meyer

Mannequin

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Ilze Bajare

Mannequin

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Anna Chyzh

Mannequin

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Lenny Kravitz

Himself

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Michael Wincott

Fashion Photographer

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Status

Released

Language

French

Budget

$14,000,020.00

Revenue

$19,777,647.00