The Mayor's Dilemma ( Les Otages )

The Mayor's Dilemma (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Les Otages
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
101 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Documentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1938 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Raymond Bernard

Written By:
Jean Anouilh
Leo Mittler

Actors:
Annie Vernay ..... Annie Beaumont
Saturnin Fabre ..... Rossignol, le châtelain
Fernand Charpin ..... Beaumont, le maire (as Charpin)
Dorville ..... Rodillar, le braconnier
Pierre Larquey ..... Fabien, l'huissier (as Larquey)
Pierre Labry ..... Rameau, le coiffeur
Noël Roquevert ..... Le garde-champêtre (as Roquevert)
Palmyre Levasseur ..... Mme Rossignol
Georges Douking ..... Brazoux (as Douking)
A.S. Takal ..... Maria
Mady Berry ..... Pierre Rossignol
Jean Pâqui ..... Madame Fabien
Marguerite Pierry ..... Le gendarme
Florian

Synopsis:

No less a literary luminary than Jean Anouilh was responsible for the dialogue exchanges in Les Otages (The Hostages). Set during WWI, the film takes place in a tiny French village, occupied by the Germans. When an enemy officer is killed, five villagers are taken hostage, sentenced to execution if the guilty party does not come forward. Through an incredible coincidence, one of the hostages is town mayor Charpin, who not only knows the killer's identity, but is also an accessory after the fact. A rather abrupt deux ex machina provides the film with a happy ending, especially for young lovers Jean Paqui and Annie Vernay, whose forbidden rendezvous precipitated the killing in the first place.

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