Lionel Nakache and Eveliina Kauhanen are featured in the lead roles of the film

Lionel Nakache is a french actor and director. He plays the male lead in Le Café de mes Souvenirs. Nakache has received the best actor award from the Art Blocks Film Festival and from the Eastern Europe Film Festival. Nakache has directed many internationally awarded short films.

I enjoyed working on this role because it is a fragile character with ideals. He is going through very strong emotions. It s a character who goes through his fragility and he struggles with himself. It is also a character who gets up and meets the woman of his life. I had the honor to play with Eveliina Kauhanen et Anouchka Delon. The music of the film is very beautiful. It was great to discover the beauty of Finland and to film there.  Valto Baltzar was very concentrated and listening in his direction. Le Café de mes Souvenirs is a powerful and sensitive story. The world in which the characters develop naturally made me think of Jacques Demy. What truly moves me in this story, however, is the sincerity and melancholy of the characters.  I enjoyed playing Philippe; my character is a sensitive and fragile man who experiences intense emotions throughout the story. The film Le Café de mes souvenirs tells about the fragility of a love story. 

Eveliina Kauhanen plays the female lead, the role of Emilie, in the film. Kauhanen has studied musical theatre at the music theatre school in Helsinki and camera acting at the Ecole Paris Marais. Le Café de mes Souvenirs competed in the Catania Film festival where Eveliina received the award for best new actress.

It was great to play the role of Emilie in the film. The character is a sensitive yet determined young adult woman. Philippe is the first love of her life. The film shows the sweetness of a first love, the separation of a couple and the continuation of life. The story reflects our times and it has been great to see that some festival-goers have even been in tears while watching the film. I hope that the music and story of the film will evoke emotions in people and reflect on their own lives. I find the film’s music beautiful and delicate, and the Prague Philharmonic City Orchestra plays it beautifully throughout the entire film. It was also wonderful to work on the songs in the recording studio. I think the film’s actors sing beautifully the songs composed by Heikki Sarmanto with lyrics by Valto Baltzar. The film’s leading song, sung by Lionel, is particularly remarkable for its melancholy and nostalgic charm.