1944. In France, devastated by the German occupation, part of the population resists the yoke of the occupiers, men and women who become heroes despite themselves by becoming active members of the Vaucluse resistance. Mother Madeleine, head of an institute for deaf girls, is one of these heroic women. She hides Jewish children and members of the Resistance in her convent, in defiance of the German threat.
Acting
Line Renaud's full-circle performance at 95.
Production
Convent as claustrophobic sanctuary, every creak a threat.
Director
Renaud Bertrand
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Line Renaud was born in 1928—she lived through the occupation she's now dramatizing. The film closes a 77-year circle.
Bertrand filmed in actual Vaucluse locations where these networks operated; surviving resistance members consulted on set protocols.
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