During World War II, many French patriots came to Britain, and many joined the British espionage organization and were sent back to France to engage in underground resistance activities against the Nazis. Many of them are women. Here is the description of a British geologist who was captured by the Germans before the large-scale landing of the Allied forces in Normandy in June 1944. He knew important information about the landing of the Allied forces. The British army sent five French female agents to rescue them. story. In charge are a French nurse, Louise, and her brother. The story is intricate, the war is ruthless, and what appeals to me more is the real humanity in it.
At the beginning of the film, in London, Louise asked her brother: "You were caught by the Gestapo last year, how did you get back?" The brother did not answer.
Later, during a mission in France, Louise's brother and another female agent were first arrested. The female agent couldn't stand the torture and confessed to where they assembled. Louise's brother found an opportunity to try to strangle the girl to death, but was unsuccessful, and the girl chose to die herself. Here, I don't think that Louise's brother tried to strangle the girl to punish the traitor, but to not want the girl to suffer any more. The real strong are not afraid of taking guilt. Later, Louise was also arrested, and Nazi major Andlich coerced his brother by torturing his sister, and the brother confessed. But in the end, my brother made a heroic sacrifice.
Now that Nazi Major Andlich knew exactly where the Allies had landed, assassinating him was his top priority. When all other efforts failed, the Allies resorted to a beauty trick to find Andreich's pre-war lover. They used to love each other very much, and it was the war that separated them, and the child was given away after birth so that the child would not have a Nazi father. (Andreich never knew about the existence of the child) When Andreich saw his former lover on the platform of the Paris subway, everything was forgotten, the mission and the enemy were forgotten. At this time, he was just an infatuated man. (Andreich was played by the famous German actor who starred in "Lola, Run," and his eyes were so sad and affectionate that I couldn't hate it.) Then, they met in a hotel. Andreich, who had been searching for his lover for three years, was now here to assassinate him, and when he knew this, he killed the lover in pain.
There was also a Frenchman, I don't remember what it was called, a pimp who was looking for a lover for Andlich. When he knew the identities of the girls, he resolutely helped them and became a resistance member.
In the end, the pimp and another female agent (a prostitute sentenced to death for killing her client) rescue Louise, who kills Andrlich as he is about to take the train to Berlin.
Louise returned to England, and everyone else, including his brother, died.
Louise, played by Sophie Marceau, is face-to-face, cold and full of hatred. Her husband was killed by the Germans, and while on the mission, she found out she was pregnant with a child, which left her devastated, and then the child was gone. In 1949 Louise returned to Paris, remarried, and lived to the age of 98, childless.
In this film, it seems that nothing is so clear, loyalty and betrayal, nobility and inferiority, ruthlessness and tenderness, bravery and cowardice... What you see is the real human nature. Real human nature is complex, positive and negative, good and bad intertwined, but they are still heroes, well-deserved heroes. You can't hate Germans either, they are human and have feelings too. Only lamenting the cruelty of war, I hope war will never happen again.
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