Lacombe Lucien ( Cognome e nome: Lacombe Lucien ) ( Lacombe, Lucien )

Lacombe Lucien (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Cognome e nome: Lacombe Lucien
Alternate Title: Lacombe, Lucien
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
133 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu

Movie filmed in 1974 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Louis Malle

Written By:
Louis Malle
Patrick Modiano

Actors:
Pierre Blaise ..... Lucien Lacombe
Aurore Clément ..... France Horn
Holger Löwenadler ..... Albert Horn, the tailor
Therese Giehse ..... Bella Horn
Stéphane Bouy ..... Jean-Bernard
Loumi Iacobesco ..... Betty Beaulieu
René Bouloc ..... Faure
Pierre Decazes ..... Aubert
Jean Rougerie ..... Tonin, the chief of police
Cécile Ricard ..... Marie, the hotel maid
Jacqueline Staup ..... Lucienne Chauvelot
Ave Ninchi ..... Mme Georges
Pierre Saintons ..... Hippolyte, the black collaborator
Gilberte Rivet ..... Lucien's mother
Jacques Rispal ..... M. Laborit, the landlord

Synopsis:

With a superb music score by Django Reinhardt, this is a Louis Malle film about the German occupation of France. Based on his own experiences in France during the occupation, Malle's film does not paint a pretty picture of the French Resistance and eventually he emigrated to America because of the critical reaction to this film. Essentially the tale of a young boy who wants to join the Resistance but is shunned by them because of his youth, he joins the Gestapo. Unfortunately, he then falls in love with a young Jewish girl. Push comes to shove and he suddenly has the unsympathetic Resistance and the Gestapo hot on his trail. Not a pretty picture of either side.

Set in occupied France, the film opens in the summer of 1944 as Lucien, our troubled teen hero, expresses an interest in assisting the local resistance movement. He is turned down and, after a chance encounter, signs up as a collaborator for the Gestapo. Easily seduced by the power and apparent glamour of the position, he soon forgets his old life. The Gestapo also allows Lucien to give in to his most nihilistic urges. When he develops a strained relationship with a Jewish tailor - and falls for his beautiful daughter - he becomes increasingly compromised and is forced into examining his real identity.

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