Female Agents (2008) ( Les Femmes de l'ombre )

Female Agents (2008) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Les Femmes de l'ombre
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Ceasar Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

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

Running Time:
117 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2008 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Jean-Paul Salomé

Written By:
Jean-Paul Salomé
Laurent Vachaud

Actors:
Sophie Marceau ..... Louise Desfontaines
Julie Depardieu ..... Jeanne Faussier
Marie Gillain ..... Suzy Desprez
Déborah François ..... Gaëlle Lemenech
Moritz Bleibtreu ..... SS Colonel Heindrich
Maya Sansa ..... Maria Luzzato
Julien Boisselier ..... Pierre Desfontaines
Vincent Rottiers ..... Eddy
Volker Bruch ..... Lieutenant Becker
Robin Renucci ..... Melchior
Xavier Beauvois ..... Charles Granville
Colin David Reese ..... Colonel Maurice Buckmaster
Jurgen Mash ..... Gerd Von Rundstedt
Conrad Cecil ..... Le géologue anglais
Alexandre Jazede ..... René Bourienne

Synopsis:

In May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy, and to kill a German SS colonel who is close to figuring out the imminent secret of D-Day, proves to be emotional and brutal. The story is inspired by the accomplishments of decorated SOE agent Lisé de Baissac.

In 1944, in London, Lieutenant Pierre Desfontaines assigns his sister Louise Desfontaines to convince three other women to form a five-woman task force under his command to rescue a British geologist from a German hospital in the countryside. The geologist was assigned by Colonel Maurice Buckmaster in a reconnaissance mission of the soil of the beaches at Normandy for the D-Day and had been captured by the Germans. Louise and Pierre force the prostitute Jeanne Faussier that is imprisoned for murdering her pimp; the explosives expert Gaëlle Lemenech that misses action; and the former dancer and fiancé of Colonel Karl Heindrich, Suzy Desprez, using blackmail and unethical methods to fly to France and join the Italian agent Maria Luzzato in the assignment. They are well-succeeded but when they deliver the geologist to the British aeroplane, Pierre betrays the group. He forces the women to travel to Paris to kill Colonel Heindrich who suspects that the landing of the allied forces will be through Normandy, in a dangerous mission.

This is the story of five French women involved in the resistance movement during the Second World War. Their mission involves the exfiltration of a British secret agent who falls into the hands of the Germans just before the Normandy Landings. These five women, who are far from heroic, become heroines.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 17 June, 2015.

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