Suite Française (film)

Suite Française
UK release poster
Directed bySaul Dibb
Screenplay by
Based onSuite française
by Irène Némirovsky
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyEduard Grau
Edited byChris Dickens
Music byRael Jones
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 13 March 2015 (2015-03-13) (United Kingdom)
  • 1 April 2015 (2015-04-01) (France)
Running time
107 minutes
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • France
  • Belgium
Languages
  • English
  • German
Budget15 million ($20 million)
Box office$9.3 million

Suite Française is a 2015 war romantic drama film directed by Saul Dibb and co-written with Matt Charman. It is based on the second part of Irène Némirovsky's 2004 novel of the same name. The film stars Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sam Riley, Ruth Wilson, Lambert Wilson and Margot Robbie. It concerns a romance between a French villager and a German soldier during the early years of the German occupation of France during World War II. Suite Française was filmed on location in France and Belgium. It was released theatrically in the UK on 13 March 2015 and premiered in the US through Lifetime cable network on 22 May 2017. The film was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition.