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Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
, 1h43Directed by Louis Malle
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes French war films, Films about children, Films about religion, Scoutisme, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Raphaël Fejtö, Gaspard Manesse, Philippe Morier-Genoud, François Berléand, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg
During the winter of 1943-44, Julien Quentin, a student at a Carmelite boarding school in occupied France, is returning to school from vacation. He acts tough to the students at the school, but he is actually a pampered mother's boy who still wets his bed. Saddened to be returning to the tedium of boarding school, Julien's classes seem uneventful until Père Jean, the headmaster, introduces three new pupils. One of them, Jean Bonnet, is the same age as Julien. Like the other students, Julien at first despises Bonnet, a socially awkward boy with a talent for arithmetic and playing the piano.
La Dame d'Izieu (2007)
Directed by Alain Wermus
Themes Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Véronique Genest, Gaëla Le Devehat, Vincent Winterhalter, Philippe du Janerand, Renaud Marx, Jean-Baptiste Marcenac
En France, durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Sabine Zlatin, une juive d'origine polonaise naturalisée française vit à Montpellier avec son mari Miron Zlatin. Elle est infirmière militaire, il est agronome. Mais dans la France sous occupation allemande, les juifs doivent se cacher pour ne pas être déportés dans les camps. Lorsque Sabine rencontre Léa Feldblum, une jeune femme juive dissimulant son identité, celle-ci lui fait rejoindre l'organisation de l'Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE). Sa mission sera dès lors de sauver les enfants enfermés dans les camp de transit, mais elle a de plus en plus de difficultés à trouver un foyer pour les enfants. Elle fonde alors à Izieu la colonie d’enfants réfugiés de l’Hérault, où pensionnent les orphelins jusqu'à une rafle organisée le 6 avril 1944 à l'initiative de Klaus Barbie.
The Two of Us (1967)
, 1h30Directed by Claude Berri
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Vieillesse, Political films, Films about school violence, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Michel Simon, Charles Denner, Luce Fabiole, Alain Cohen, Roger Carel, Paul Préboist
Claude (Alain Cohen) is an 8-year-old Jewish boy living in France during the Nazi occupation. To reduce the chance that he would be sent to Auschwitz or a similar fate, his parents send him to live with a farm family, the elderly parents of Catholic friends of his parents. (In reality, many French urban Jews made similar choices for their children.) The elderly couple honestly think that the boy has been sent to live with them because Paris is dangerous; it never crosses their mind that Claude is a Jew.
Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
, 2h12Directed by Louis Malle
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Therese Giehse, Holger Löwenadler, Stéphane Bouy, René Bouloc
In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a 17-year-old peasant living in the Lot region of south-western France, is rejected by the French Resistance. Pro-German collaborators obtain information from him about a resistance leader and recruit him into the "Milice Francaise", a fascist group that hunts down Resistance fighters.
Mr. Klein (1976)
, 2h3Directed by Joseph Losey
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about religion, L'usurpation d'identité, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Escroquerie, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Alain Delon, Michael Lonsdale, Jeanne Moreau, Juliet Berto, Francine Bergé, Jean Bouise
Paris, January 1942. France is occupied by the Nazis. Robert Klein, apparently apolitical, is a well-to-do art dealer, Roman Catholic and Alsatian by birth, who takes advantage of French Jews who need to sell artworks to raise cash to leave the country. One day, the local Jewish newspaper, addressed to him, is delivered to his home. He learns that another Robert Klein who has been living in Paris, a Jew sought by the police, has had his mail forwarded to him in an apparent attempt to destroy his social reputation and make him a target of official anti-Semitism. He reports this to the police who remain suspicious that he may be reporting this scheme to disguise his own true identity. His own investigations lead him in contradictory directions, to Klein who lives in a slum while having an affair with his concierge and to Klein who visits a palatial country estate where he has seduced an apparently Jewish married woman. When the art dealer cannot locate the other Klein, authorities require him to offer proof of his French heritage. While waiting for the documentation to arrive, he struggles to track down his namesake and learn his motivation. Before he can resolve the situation by either means, he is caught up in the July 1942 roundup of Parisian Jews. He is reunited with Jews who once were his clients as they board boxcars for Germany.
Sarah's Key (2010)
, 1h51Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Kristin Scott Thomas, Niels Arestrup, Arben Bajraktaraj, Mélusine Mayance, Frédéric Pierrot, Aidan Quinn
In 1942, 10-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Mélusine Mayance) hides her younger brother from French police by locking him in a secret closet and telling him to stay there until she returns. She takes the key with her when she and her parents are transported to the Vélodrome d'Hiver, where they are held in inhuman conditions by the Paris Police and French Secret Service.
A Bag of Marbles (2017)
, 1h53Directed by Olivier Dahan, Christian Duguay
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about children, La provence, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Patrick Bruel, Dorian Le Clech, Elsa Zylberstein, Kev Adams, Christian Clavier, Bernard Campan
Dans la France occupée, Maurice et Joseph, deux jeunes frères juifs, sont envoyés par leurs parents dans la zone libre et font preuve de malice, de courage et d’ingéniosité pour échapper aux occupants et tenter de réunir à nouveau leur famille.
Mother Mary (1982)
, 1h40Origin Russie
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Ludmila Kassatkina, Leonid Markov, Natalia Bondartchouk, Valery Zolotoukhine
The Round Up (2010)
, 1h55Directed by Roselyne Bosch
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Mélanie Laurent, Jean Reno, Sylvie Testud, Gad Elmaleh, Raphaëlle Agogué, Hugo Leverdez
Jo Weisman, a young Jewish Parisian, and his family are taken by the Nazis and Vichy collaborators in the rafle du Vel' d'Hiv. Anna Traube, a 20-year-old woman, walks out of the velodrome with forged papers; her mother and sister are captured. Annette Monod, a Protestant nurse, volunteers for the velodrome, and assists Jewish doctor David Sheinbaum. From the Vélodrome d'Hiver Jo's family and Sheinbaum are transferred to the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp. Monod comes along. She does what she can to help the children, who are soon falling sick from the camp diet and conditions.
Fanny's Journey (2016)
, 1h34Directed by Lola Doillon
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about children, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Fantine Harduin, Cécile de France, Stéphane De Groodt, Malonn Lévana, Jérémie Petrus
En 1943, pendant l'Occupation, dans la Creuse, Fanny, 12 ans et ses deux petites sœurs Georgette et Erika, sont dans un refuge pour enfants juifs. Les adultes qui s'occupent des nombreux enfants, suite à une dénonciation, sont obligés d'envoyer leurs protégés chez Madame Forman, près de la frontière italienne. Fanny sympathise avec Élie, 15 ans, qui rêve d'entrer dans la Résistance. Peu de temps après, Mussolini est renversé en Italie et l'armée allemande envahit la zone d'occupation italienne. Madame Forman décide d'envoyer les enfants en Suisse romande où ils seront en sécurité. Elle forme deux groupes. Le premier groupe, sous la responsabilité d'Élie, part en train jusqu'à Sallanches. Le groupe comprend Fanny, ses sœurs, Victor, Maurice, Diane de 17 ans, Rachel, Marie et Jacques .
Monsieur Batignole (2002)
, 1h40Directed by Gérard Jugnot, Cécilia Rouaud
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about children, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Gérard Jugnot, Jules Sitruk, Michèle Garcia, Jean-Paul Rouve, Alexia Portal, Marie-Hélène Lentini
In 1942, in Paris, which is seized by Germany, a grocer Edmond Batignole (Gérard Jugnot) is living with his family in his grocery building. He has a daughter who is soon to be married. His future son-in-law, Pierre-Jean (Jean-Paul Rouve) and his wife wanted the apartment owned by a Jewish family. When the properties of all the Jews was confiscated the Batignole family got the apartment. The Jewish family was sent to transportation to Germany. After the Batignoles had occupied the apartment the Batignoles organise a party for the SS officials and during that party young Simon Bernstein (Jules Sitruk) of the Jewish family who had escaped from the Germans, returns to his home. Edmond Batignole feels sorry for the boy and hides him in the apartment from his family before anyone else could see him. Soon Simon's cousins meet him in the cellar of the grocery and the grocer plans to smuggle the children over the border to Switzerland.
The Last Train (1973)
, 1h35Directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical, Romance
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Maurice Biraud, Régine, Nike Arrighi, Serge Marquand
In May 1940 a packed train takes refugees from a French village near the Belgian border away from the advancing German forces.. On it are Julien, a short-sighted radio repairer, and his pregnant wife and daughter. The women are given priority in a carriage at the front while he has to scramble into a cattle truck at the rear. There he is struck by a mysterious and beautiful young woman on her own.
A Secret (2007)
, 1h40Directed by Claude Miller
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Cécile de France, Patrick Bruel, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric, Nathalie Boutefeu
The film follows Maxime Nathan and his Jewish family in France during the years leading up to World War II. François Grimbert (played as a young boy by Valentin Vigourt and as an adolescent by Mathieu Amalric) grows up in Paris in the 1950s. He is the skinny, sickly son of two marvelously athletic parents, Tania (Cécile de France) and Maxime (Patrick Bruel). For a while, he dreams of a stronger, fitter, more charismatic older brother to compensate for his own feelings of inadequacy. Only gradually does he learn of his parents' tragic past and that he has a sibling — a half-brother named Simon, his father's first son.
Army of Crime (2009)
, 2h19Directed by Robert Guédiguian
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes French war films, Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Virginie Ledoyen, Simon Abkarian, Robinson Stévenin, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lola Naymark, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
In Paris during the German occupation, an ill-assorted group of resistance fighters commits disorganized attacks. Missak Manouchian, an Armenian exile, is ready to help but is reluctant to kill; for him, being ready to die but not to kill is an ethical matter. However, circumstances lead him to abandon his reluctance. Under his leadership, the group structures and plans its actions and thus the Manouchian network is born. The film traces the story of this group, from its shaping to the execution of its members in 1944.
A Bag of Marbles (1975)
, 1h45Directed by Jacques Doillon
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Richard Constantini, Hubert Drac, Gilles Laurent, Michel Robin, Marc Eyraud, Bernadette Le Saché
En 1942, les lois antisémites du gouvernement de Vichy contraignent les deux ainés d’un coiffeur juif de Paris à fuir vers la zone libre. Un peu plus tard, les deux autres frères s’enfuient également pour gagner le Sud de la France. Ils réussissent à passer la ligne de démarcation et rejoignent Menton où ils vont retrouver leurs frères et bientôt leurs parents.