La Ligne de demarcation / Line of Demarcation / Claude Chabrol / 1966 / film review

La Ligne de démarcation

1966 War / Drama

Credits

Director: Claude Chabrol
Script: Claude Chabrol, Colonel Rémy
Photo: Jean Rabier
Music: Pierre Jansen
Cast: Jean Seberg (Mary, comtesse de Damville), Maurice Ronet (Pierre, comte de Damville), Daniel Gélin (Doctor Jacques Lafaye), Jacques Perrin (Michel, le radio), Stéphane Audran (La femme du Dr. Lafaye), Reinhard Kolldehoff (Major von Pritsch), Claude Léveillée (Le capitaine Duncan Presgrave), Roger Dumas (Chéti, le passeur), Mario David (Urbain, le garde-chasse), Jean Yanne (Tricot, l’instituteur), Jean-Louis Maury (Un agent de la gestapo), Pierre Gualdi (Le curé), Noël Roquevert (Eugène Menetru), Claude Berri (Le chef de famille juif), Colin Drake (Le Colonel)
Country: France
Language: French
Runtime: 120 min; B&W
Aka: Line of Demarcation

Summary

A small village in the Jura is divided by the river Loue which marks the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and freedom. A French officer, Pierre, is released by the Nazi soldiers to find his chateau converted into a German command centre. Whilst he is obliged to co-operate with the enemy, his wife Mary plays a hand in supporting the French resistance. The Nazis step up their activity against the resistance, insisting that any who attempt to cross the line of demarcation will be shot. When his wife is arrested, Pierre decides to switch his allegiance...

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