Story by: Irène Némirovsky
Publisher: Toronto, Ontario: Entertainment One, 2015.
Annotation: Set during the German occupation of France in 1940, this film is described as "rewardingly complex and disarmingly passionate" (The Guardian) in addition too also being "a romantic but discordant dispatch on love and war" (Independent).
Based on the novel written by Irène Némirovsky of the same name, Suite Française portrays the dismal circumstances and consequences of the German occupation of France. Citizens from Paris flee to the countryside, but not far behind them are a battalion of German troops who take up residence in the French villagers' homes. Lucille Angellier, the story's protagonist, does her best to ignore the German soldier (Bruno von Falk) living with her and her mother, but...perhaps, there is a deep attraction forming between the two.
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