A Self-Made Hero

IMDb link: 0118020
IMDb rating: 7.2 (3,556 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Director: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Audiard, Mathieu Kassovitz, Sandrine Kiberlain
Cast: Anouk Grinberg and others

Release date: 12 Sep 1997
Release year: 1996
Runtime: 107 minutes
Country: France
Keywords: french resistance, younger version of character, satire comedy, france, widow, dead father, liar, nonlinear timeline, interview, gay

Plot:

Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he inveigles himself with the resistance movement. They trust him and he helps them trace collaborators.

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