Les Miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois

The educational year is ending and Jérôme, a medical student, is on the point of leaving on holiday to Brittany with friends. However he remains pensive and regrets not having approached Claudia, an Italian student, who must leave France the same evening. So he decides to go to her hotel. The two young people acknowledge their mutual love and Jérôme accompanies Claudia to the station and promises to join her in Tuscany the next month, as soon as he finds enough money. In Tuscany, Jérôme realizes that he seriously loves Claudia and proposes marriage to her. The two lovers return to their hotel but the city is agitated: war has just been declared. Jérôme learns from the consulate that he has been mobilised and that he must return. Separated by the war and no longer able to correspond, Jérôme loses track of Claudia. He will try to forget her by remaking his life, but haunted by the memory of this lost love, he will not succeed. Eleven years later, he leaves for Italy to try to find her, but time has passed…

• Alida Valli as Claudia
• Jean Marais as Jérôme
• Marcelle Arnold as the bar owner
• Christine Chesnay as Jérôme's wife
• Charles Rutherford as the American
• Dedi Ristori as Little Francesca
• Aldo Moschino as the doctor
• Emma Baron as the hotel owner
• Nada Fiorelli as Maria Forni
• Gérard Buhr
• Vera Cini
• Edmond Ardisson as an employee
• Daniel Ceccaldi as a friend of Jérôme
• Jacques Denoël as a friend of Jérôme
• Bernard Farrell (uncredited)
• Alex Favier (uncredited)
• Claire Gérard as the restaurant owner (uncredited)
• Françoise Prévost (uncredited)
• Alain Raffael as a friend of Jérôme (uncredited)
• Michele Riccardini (uncredited)

• Les Miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois at IMDb
• NY Times Movies page on film