Alliance Française Library
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Titre :
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Laissez-passer
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Auteurs :
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Bertrand Tavernier
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Type de document :
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vidéo
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Editeur :
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Koch Lorber Films, 2004
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Format :
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163 min.
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Note générale :
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In French with English subtitles. Movie released in 2002-English title: Safe Conduct
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Langues:
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Français
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Index. décimale :
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F-DVD (Films)
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Catégories :
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Cinéastes / Directors
Collaboration (1939-1945)
Films / Movies
Nazisme / Nazism
Résistance / Resistance : 1940-1946
Seconde Guerre Mondiale / World War II : 1939-1945
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Résumé :
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Safe Conduct, directed by Bertrand Tavernier, is a fact-based period drama which examines two men working for a Parisian film company during 1942 and 1943, as well as their friends, family, and loved ones. Jean Devaivre (played by Jacques Gamblin) is an assistant director for Continental Pictures, a studio which has recently been taken over by the Germans and is headed by Dr. Greven (Christian Berkel), a self-styled aficionado of French filmmaking. With a wife (Marie Desgranges) and a newborn son to support, Devaivre feels he has little choice but to continue with his work, though as he rises from assisting to becoming a full fledged director thanks to the efforts of Maurice Tourneur (Philippe Morier-Genoud), he struggles to work his own views into his pictures as much as he can. Screenwriter Jean Aurenche (Denis Podalydes), a man who lives for wine, women and song (not necessarily in that order), refuses to work for Greven, and as he bounces between his many lovers - actress Suzanne Raymond (Charlotte Kady), no-nonsense streetwalker Olga (Marie Gillain), and soft-hearted Reine (Maria Pitarresi), a struggles to find a way to make a living with his words. Both Devaivre and Aurenche were real-life figures in the French film industry during the occupation, as were many of Safe Conduct's supporting characters; the real life Aurenche went on to write the screenplay for Bertrand Travernier's first feature film.
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Nature (forme/thème) :
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Drame
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