

In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serviceman.

Alan Bates
Marcel Proust

Janet McTeer
Céleste Albaret

Jonathan Coy
Odilon
Gillian Martell
Concierge

Paul Rhys
Amable Massis
Philip Rham
Gaston Poulet
Peter Geeves
Louis Ruyssen

Celia Imrie
Madame Massis

Lesley Nightingale
Princess Soutzo

Michael Grandage
Paul Morand

Richard Syms
Head Waiter
Ben Buckton
Petain
Udayan Prasad
Alan Bennett
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