Directed by:
Pierre Granier-DeferreCinematography:
Walter WottitzComposer:
Philippe SardeCast:
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Anne Wiazemsky, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Serge Marquand, Maurice Biraud, Henri Attal, Paul Le Person, Pierre Collet (more)Plots(1)
May 1940 - Germany invades Europe, people panic and try to flee by any means possible. Also in France, Julien (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a radio repairman, boards a train with his wife and child to flee away from German army. As the men are placed in cattle cars with only the women and elderly allowed in the passenger cars, events begin their fateful turning. insignificant repairman meets Anna (Romy Schneider), a young attractive and wealthy Jewish German. They falls in love, but they have to be separate. Three years later, the Gestapo draws them together again. (official distributor synopsis)
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Proclaimed realism stands and falls based on excellent acting performances. Trintignant's economical acting goes hand in hand with Schneider's adaptable acting. She naturally feels like an Alsatian and he stoically accepts the inevitable. Unfortunately, everything else is conditioned by the traditional 1970s optics, which doesn't bother with period sets and makes do with a few old suitcases, which isn't much. The events of 1940 to 1943 would need to be fundamentally different. Three years after this film, however, Granier-Deferre continued this trend and confused the audiences of A Woman at Her Window by ensuring that they would not even know the time span the story takes place in.
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