Lucie Aubrac (1999)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Sep 17, 1999

Running Time: 116 mins. (V)

Additional Notes: dialogue French

Country Of Origin: France

starring: Carole Bouquet, Daniel Auteuil, Patrice Chéreau, Eric Boucher, Jean-Roger Milo, Heino Ferch, Jean Martin, Andrzej Seweryn, Alain Maratrat, Pascal Greggory

director: Claude Berri

Lyon, France: It is March 1943. As World War II rages, the French Resistance movement fights on. Activist Raymond Samule, whose underground pseudonym is "Raymond Aubrac" and his wife Lucie Bernard, a.k.a. "Lucie Aubrac," work against the occupying Nazi forces. On June 21st, 1943, Raymond is arrested in Caluire. Raymond is found guilty of war crimes against the Germans, and is sentenced to death. His last--only--chance for survival is Lucie. Cunning, resourceful, and romantic, Lucie risks her life for what the couple believes in. Her efforts to rescue the husband she passionately loves would seem to spring from the fertile imagination of a novelist... but this film is based on a true story.

French director Claude Berri once again revisits his country's past in his latest feature, "Lucie Aubrac." Set against the repressive backdrop of World War II France, the film chronicles one couple's relentless fight against Nazi occupation and their insistent struggle to stay together.

Based on the autobiographical "Outwitting the Gestapo" by the real-life Lucie Aubrac, the film opens with the French Resistance wiring a German railway route for an explosion. Amongst those involved is Raymond…