Safe Conduct
Laissez-passer, feature film, 2002
DIRECTED BY: Bertrand Tavernier
CAST:
Jacques Gamblin (Jean-Devaivre),
Denis Podalydčs (Jean Aurenche),
Charlotte Kady (Suzanne Raymond),
Marie Desgranges (Simone Devaivre),
Ged Marlon (Jean-Paul Le Chanois)
SCRIPT:
Jean Cosmos,
Bertrand Tavernier (prema knjizi Jeana Devaivrea)
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Alain Choquart
Synopsis:
This film questions the survival of the French film industry during the German occupation of France. The leading film studio, Continental film, in the country is under German leadership. Jean-Devaivre works there as assistant director and he is simultaneously a member of the French resistance. Screenplay writer Jean Aurenche refuses any connection to the Germans and tries to survive in his own way.
color, 35mm, 170 minuta