Lacombe Lucien

See also: Lacombe

Lacombe Lucien is a film of Louis Malle left in 1974.

Synopsis

Lucien Lacombe, a young peasant of South-west working at the city, turns over for a few days in his parents in June 1944. His/her father was stopped by the Germans and his/her mother lives with another man. He meets his teacher, become resistant, to who he entrusts his desire to enter the maquis. It essuie a refusal. Of return downtown, it is stopped by the police force and after a skilful interrogation denounces its teacher. He is engaged by the Gestapo.

Very quickly, he saw the life of a German policeman, but fall in love with Jewish.

Comment

Thirty years after the end of the war, and five years after Sorrow and the pity which exposed to the great day the ambiguous behaviors of the French company of then, the film defrayed nevertheless the chronicle at its exit, by the absence of moral judgment related by Louis Malle to the behavior of a collaborator.

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Around film

  • It is practically the only film, in all the cases the only notable one, of its main actor, Pierre Blaise, which turned then televised series before dying in an car accident in August 1975.

Rewards

  • Price Méliès in 1974
  • BAFTA of the best film

See too

External bonds

  • Presentation of the film Lacombe Lucien by Louis Malle the 2/6/1974 (video of the site of the INA, ina.fr)
  • Lacombe Lucien on Internet Movie Database

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