'' (translated as ''Last Year '''in''' Marienbad'' in the UK and ''Last Year '''at''' Marienbad'' in North America) is a
1961 French Movie directed by
Alain Resnais , starring
Delphine Seyrig ,
Giorgio Albertazzi ,
Sacha Pitoëff . It is famous for its enigmatic narrative structure, in which truth and fiction are difficult to distinguish, and the exact temporal and spatial relationship of the events is open to question.
The film was nominated for the
1963 Academy Award For Writing Original Screenplay (
Alain Robbe-Grillet ), and it won the Golden Lion at the 1961
Venice Film Festival .
In some of the movie's most memorable sequences, characters engage in a version of the game
Nim .
Marienbad (
Mariánské Lázně ) is a town in the
Czech Republic . The film's setting is unclear (although almost certainly not Marienbad), but was actually filmed at the
Nymphenburg Palace ,
Munich ,
Germany .
The film was inspired by the novel ''
The Invention Of Morel '' by
Adolfo Bioy Casares .
- Jean-Louis Leutrat, L'Année dernière a Marienbad, London: British Film Institute, 2000
