Safe Conduct ( Laissez-passer ) ( Déjenlo pasar )

Safe Conduct (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Laissez-passer
Alternate Title: Déjenlo pasar
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

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

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
163 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2002 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Bertrand Tavernier

Written By:
Jean Cosmos
Jean-Devaivre

Actors:
Jacques Gamblin ..... Jean-Devaivre
Denis Podalydès ..... Jean Aurenche
Charlotte Kady ..... Suzanne Raymond
Marie Desgranges ..... Simone Devaivre
Ged Marlon ..... Jean-Paul Le Chanois
Philippe Morier-Genoud ..... Maurice Tourneur
Laurent Schilling ..... Charles Spaak
Maria Pitarresi ..... Reine Sorignal
Christian Berkel ..... Dr. Greven
Richard Sammel ..... Richard Pottier
Marie Gillain ..... Olga
Olivier Gourmet ..... Roger Richebé
Philippe Saïd ..... Pierre Nord
Liliane Rovère ..... Mémaine
Götz Burger ..... Bauermeister

Synopsis:

In 1942, in Paris, the assistant director and member of the French resistance Jean-Devaivre joins the German studio Continental Films to be infiltrated and get a safe conduct. Along the years, he spies while making French movies produced by the Germans. Meanwhiile, the wolf bourgeois screenwriter Jean Aurenche spends his shallow life with his three lovers - the artist Suzanne Raymond, the whore Olga and Suzanne's friend and costumes stylist - and trying to not collaborate with the Germans with his work.

Bertrand Tavernier directs this epic film, set in 1942 Paris during the country's occupation by Germany. Based on a true story, the French film industry during that period is the focus of the film, told from the point of view of two characters: a writer and an assistant director. Both are men are having to come to terms with life under the Germans whilst at the same time, having to keep their own secrets hidden.

In occupied France, German-run Continental Films calls the shots in the movie business. Assistant director and Resistance activist Jean Devaivre works for Continental, where he can get "in between the wolf's teeth and avoid being chewed up". Fast-living screenwriter Jean Aurenche uses every possible argument to avoid working for the enemy. For both, wartime is a battle for survival.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 12 September, 2010.