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French cinema: War

La Vie de château (1966)
Jean-Paul Rappeneau

Normandy, 1944. Jérôme is the proud owner of a large country estate, a man who is far more preoccupied with his orchards than with the fate of his country...   [More...]

La Vie et rien d'autre (1989)
Bertrand Tavernier

France, 1920. It is two years since the signing of the Armistice that brought an end to the First World War, but the clearing up still continues...   [More...]

Le Vieil homme et l'enfant (1967)
Claude Berri

In 1943, with France under Nazi occupation, a Jewish couple decide to send their young son, Claude, to live in the country, where they hope he will be safe from arrest...   [More...]

Le Vieux fusil (1975)
Robert Enrico

It is 1944 and Germany is losing the war in Europe. The allied forces have broken through on the Normandy front and the occupying troops have begun their retreat...   [More...]

La Vouivre (1989)
Georges Wilson

France, 1919. A small village bears the imprint of the First World War through the noticeable lack of young men who were once its life and soul...   [More...]

Week-end à Zuydcoote (1964)
Henri Verneuil

Early in June 1940, the battle for France is all but lost. Overwhelmed by the superiority of the German armies, French and English troops are driven back towards the Normandy coastline...   [More...]

Zone libre (2007)
Christophe Malavoy

During the Second World War, Simon, a French Jew, succeeds in smuggling his family from Nazi-occupied France into the Free Zone...   [More...]


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