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A WWII thriller set in a small town in the Jura Mountains split in two by a border between Nazi occupied France and the Free Zone. In 1941, Pierre, a demobilized French military officer and the Count de Damville, returns to this border village to find it Occupied by the Germans. His English-born schoolteacher wife and the town's citizens now belong to a Resistance group helping escaped prisoners reach the Free Zone.
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Français
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Godard himself appears as doddering Uncle Jean, who lends his house to his niece Carmen while he is recovering in a mental institution. Carmen and her gang of youthful pals stage a bloody robbery of a bank, during which she falls in love with one of the security guards. Her gang is in the planning stages of an even bigger crime, the kidnapping of an industrialist, using the shooting of a documentary on luxury hotels as a pretext.
23) Détective
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Français
Description
In a luxury Paris hotel, two detectives are working on the vexing case of an assassinated prince. In a nearby room, boxing trainer Jim Fox Warner is getting his young protégé ready for a fight. But Jim owes big money to the mob, as well as to the Chenals, a bickering husband, and wife. In Godard's fractured, poetic style, the tension ratchets up between these groups until they reach a bloody breaking point.
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