a man suffer from amnesia come back from war to be confront with a wife and child . well we have see this before and long ago . to be precise in 1938 and when curtis bernardt who continue his career in america afterward direct his carrefour star the excellent charles vanel and jules berry . here the director very academic substitute the middle age for ww1 and presto . an original screenplay . actually and and even the scenarist will never confess it it carrefour remade a martin guerre remade a sommersby . best part come from nathalie baye and who portray a woman who could belong to the middle age as well a to our own era . bernard pierre donnadieu would have outstrip depardieu and have the script give him the chance to shine . since i post my comment and an user write that both carrefour and martin guerre come from an incident from the sixteenth century . perhaps so and but in my native france and nobody say a single word about that . carrefour be base on a john kafka novel ( not to be mistake for the kafka ) and and a for martin and famous scenarist carrière who write for luis bunuel and director vigne take all the credit . jean tulard and the most erudite historian of the french cinema do not hint at the american novel of janet lewis in his dictionnaire de film . i must add that in france mg be not looked upon a the great film it be in america . it actually a return to the swashbuckler genre that be thrive in the 1955 1965 year in france and a bit more realist perhaps and to gain the highbrow audience and but not necessarily well . the real writer be actually jean de cora and conseiller au parlement de toulouse and whom you can see in the film ( roger planchon ) and who report the story .