If the Sun Never Returns
Introduction '''''If the Sun Never Returns''''' () is a Franco-Swiss film directed by Claude Goretta, with a script written by the director, from the original novel by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz and stars Charles Vanel, Catherine Mouchet and Philippe Léotard. It was one of the  In-Competition Films at the 1987 Venice Film Festival. The film was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 60th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Plot In a little village, lost at the bottom of a valley in the midst of mountains and deprived of sun for long months, an old man Anzerul (Charles Vanel), prophet and magician, announces the end of the world. According to his calculations the sun will not return to the village and the village  will descend into an endless winter. The villagers give way, one after the other, to panic, piling up wood or giving themselves up to drink. Only Isabelle Antide (Catherine Mouchet), holds up against the hysteria. She urges them not to give in to terror, and to struggle against a damaging fatalism. On the 13 April, the day the sun returns to the village each year, she leads them above the cover of fog which hangs over their valley.
Cast *Charles Vanel  as  ''Anzerul''*Catherine Mouchet  as  ''Isabelle Antide''*Philippe Léotard  as ''Arlettaz''*Raoul Billeray   as ''Denis Revaz''*Claude Evrard  as ''Follonier''*Fred Ulysse  as ''Tissières''*Jacques Mathou  as '' Cyprien Métrailler''
See also * List of submissions to the 60th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film* List of Swiss submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links * * Claude Goretta at the   Film Directory