--- title: 'The Green Room (1978)' type: 'film' director: 'François Truffaut' released: '1978-04-05' runtime_minutes: 94 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'France' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-green-room-1978' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077315/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Green Room (1978) 1978 · 94 min · Drama · France Original title: La Chambre verte ## Synopsis The Green Room is a 1978 French historical drama film directed by and starring François Truffaut, based on the 1895 short story "The Altar of the Dead" by Henry James, in which a man becomes obsessed with the dead people in his life and builds a memorial to them. It is also based on two other works by James: the 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle and the 1896 short story "The Way It Came". It was Truffaut's seventeenth feature film as a director and the third and last of his own films in which he acted in a leading role. It stars Truffaut, Nathalie Baye, Jean Dasté and Patrick Maléon. ## Credits - **Director:** [François Truffaut](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-truffaut) - **Screenplay:** [François Truffaut](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-truffaut), [Jean Gruault](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-gruault) - **Original Music Composer:** [Maurice Jaubert](https://cinepixo.com/people/maurice-jaubert) - **Producer:** [Marcel Berbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/marcel-berbert) - **Director of Photography:** [Néstor Almendros](https://cinepixo.com/people/nestor-almendros) - **Editor:** [Martine Barraqué](https://cinepixo.com/people/martine-barraque) ## Cast - [Antoine Vitez](https://cinepixo.com/people/antoine-vitez) - [Nathalie Baye](https://cinepixo.com/people/nathalie-baye) - [Jean Dasté](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-daste) - [Jean-Pierre Moulin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-pierre-moulin) - [Serge Rousseau](https://cinepixo.com/people/serge-rousseau) - [François Truffaut](https://cinepixo.com/people/francois-truffaut) - [Jean-Pierre Ducos](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-pierre-ducos) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-green-room-1978 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1171341); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.