Pour Sacha Explained

Pour Sacha
Director:Alexandre Arcady
Producer:Robert Benmussa
Music:Philippe Sarde Naomi Shemer
Cinematography:Robert Alazraki
Editing:Martine Barraqué
Studio:Alexandre Films, Canal+
Distributor:Union Générale Cinématographique
Runtime:114 minutes
Country:France
Language:French

Pour Sacha (English title: For Sacha) is a 1991 French romantic drama film directed by Alexandre Arcady and starring Sophie Marceau, Gérard Darmon, and Ayelet Zurer. The film is set just prior to the outbreak of the Six-Day War in 1967.

Plot

Sacha and Laura, who have been living on a kibbutz in Israel near the Syrian border for two years, are visited by three friends from Paris - Simon, Michel, and Paul - who have come to celebrate Laura's twentieth birthday. One of the friends, Simon, is obsessed by the death of the girl he loved. During the birthday celebration, he tries to find amongst his friends someone to blame for his love's death. Laura is the only one who knows that the young girl died of a broken heart. She also loved Sacha. The film ends as war is declared in Israel.

Cast