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October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German Army. In retaliation, Hitler demands the deaths of 150 Frenchmen, as 'retribution'. The targets are to be mostly young men believed to share the assassins’ political convictions. Most of these men are taken from an internment camp for opponents of the occupation; a 35-year-old French rural administrator is ordered to select the victims. Although the parish priest appeals to their conscience and moral sensibilities, both the German military and their French helpers slavishly follow their orders.Read moreLess
October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German Army. In retaliation, Hitler demands the deaths of 150 Frenchmen, as 'retribution'. The targets are to be mostly young men believed to share the assassins’ political convictions. Most of these men are taken from an internment camp for opponents of the occupation; a 35-year-old French rural administrator is ordered to select the victims. Although the parish priest appeals to their conscience and moral sensibilities, both the German military and their French helpers slavishly follow their orders.
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October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German Army. In retaliation, Hitler demands the deaths of 150 Frenchmen, as 'retribution'. The targets are to be mostly young men believed to share the assassins’ political convictions. Most of these men are taken from an internment camp for opponents of the occupation; a 35-year-old French rural administrator is ordered to select the victims. Although the parish priest appeals to their conscience and moral sensibilities, both the German military and their French helpers slavishly follow their orders.
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Léo-Paul SalmainGuy Môquet
Ulrich MatthesErnst Jünger
Jean-Marc RoulotLucien Touya
Marc BarbéJean Pierre Thimbaud
Jacob MatschenzSoldier Otto
Harald SchrottOberst Speidel
Christopher BuchholzKristucat
Arielle DombasleCharmille
Philippe RésimontDésiré Granet
Charlie NelsonVictor Renelle
Martin LoizillonClaude LaletExplore the crew
- Director
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Writer
- Volker Schlöndorff
- Producer
- Bruno Petit
- Producer
- Olivier Poubelle
- Editor
- Susanne Hartmann
- Director of Photography
- Lubomir Bakchev
- Original Music Composer
- Bruno Coulais