One Against the Wind ( The Story of Mary Lindell ) ( 1 Against the Wind )

One Against the Wind (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: The Story of Mary Lindell
Alternate Title: 1 Against the Wind
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
Golden Globes
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
95 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1991 and produced in:
Luxembourg ( France, Benelux )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Larry Elikann

Written By:
Chris Bryant

Actors:
Judy Davis ..... Countess Mary Lindell
Sam Neill ..... Major James Leggatt, The Guards
Anthony Higgins ..... SS Capt. Herman Gruber
Christien Anholt ..... Maurice Lindell, Mary's Son
Kate Beckinsale ..... Barbe Lindell
Denholm Elliott ..... Father LeBlanc
Frank Middlemass ..... Dubois
David Ryall ..... Dumont, Mary's Lawyer
Peter Cellier ..... Court General
Mark Wing-Davey ..... Col. Miles Grant, Leggat's CO
Stevan Rimkus ..... German Pilot
Tom Hodgkins ..... Ben, Big Canada
Michael Crossman ..... Little Canada
John Savident ..... Henry Smallwood, American Embasy
Terry Taplin ..... Von Bismarck

Synopsis:

This award-winning TV production tells the true story of a heroic woman's underground operation to spirit Allied soldiers out of Nazi-occupied France. Her name is Mary Lindell, a British-born Red Cross nurse living in France with her two teenage children, Maurice and Barbé, by Lindell's marriage to Count de Melville. The story begins in Paris in 1940 when a downed British flier, Maj. James Legatt (Sam Neill), stumbles to a table at a sidewalk cafe. Dressed in a shin-to-shoulder overcoat and dizzy with fatigue, he plops into a chair. At a table nearby, Lindell (Judy Davis) notices his boots - British issue and a dead giveaway. When German soldiers approach the flier, Lindell walks to his table and slaps him smartly, pretending he is her drunken husband. The ruse works. Lindell then takes Legatt to her home in a taxi and nurses him to health. During their time together, they fall in love - chastely, without overtly disclosing their affection for each other. Using her feminine wiles and forceful personality to bamboozle SS hounds, she effects his escape back to England, then dedicates herself to rescuing other allies. All goes well until a flier botches his escape. An investigation and trial send Lindell to prison for nine months, which she barely survives. After her release, her son and daughter hide her and restore her to health, and Lindell goes back to work smuggling Allies across the border - this time with the aid of a priest (Denholm Elliot) and Maj. Legatt, who tracks her activities from his headquarters in England. She eventually ends up in the Ravensbrück concentration camp north of Berlin, and in the conclusion of the production, viewers learn the ultimate fate of Lindell and Legatt.

In Second World War, the English Countess Mary Lindell and former Red-Cross nurse in the First World War lives in France with her son Maurice Lindell and her daughter Barbe Lindell. When she sees the Major James Leggatt wounded and wandering in an occupied Paris, she does not hesitate to risk her life to save him from the Germans. This is the beginning of her support to the Allies (specially British and American soldiers) in France, helping them to escape to Spain.

Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to the unoccupied side. Her activities are complicated by her high profile and her daughter's love affair with a German officer. Based on the true story.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 20 July, 2011.

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