Lacombe, Lucien

original title:
Lacombe, Lucien
other titles:
Cognome e nome - Lacombe Lucien
country / year of production:
France , Germany , Italy / 1973
original length:
137 min. , color
premiere:
30 January 1974
genre:
melodrama
based on:
director:
Louis Malle
film script:
Louis Malle , Patrick Modiano
producer:
Louis Malle , Claude Nedjar
cinematographer:
Tonino Delli Colli
editor:
Suzanne Baron
composer:
Django Reinhardt
cast (role):
Pierre Blaise (Lucien Lacombe) , René Clément (France Horn) , Holger Löwenadler (Albert Horn) , Therese Giehse (Bella Horn) , Stéphane Bouy (Jean-Bernard) , Pierre Blaise , René Clément , Holger Löwenadler , Therese Giehse , Stéphane Bouy
more:
plot synopsis:
Summer 1944 in a small village in the southwest of France: Lucien, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates her employer, wants to join the Resistance but fails because he is too young. Disappointed he decides to work for the Gestapo instead. Unfortunately, he falls in love with France Horn, the daughter of a rich jewish tailor then. Suddenly not only the Resisiteance but also the Gestapo is on his trail.
keywords:
occupation , children , collaboration , Resistance
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Richard J. Golsan. „Collaboration, alienation, and the crisis of identity in the film and fiction of Patrick Modiano“. In: Wendell Aycock/ Michael Schoenecke (Eds.). Film and Literature: A comparative approach to adaptation. Lubbock: Texas Tech UP, 1988 (SCLit 19), 107-121.
remarks:
Wins the British Academy Award for Best Film and the United Nations Award in 1974.
availability:
VHS