Safe Conduct

IMDb link: 0269461
IMDb rating: 6.9 (1,709 votes)
Genres: Drama, Biography, War, History
Director: Bertrand Tavernier
Cast: Denis Podalydes, Jacques Gamblin, Charlotte Kady, Marie Desgranges and others

Release date: 9 Jan 2002
Release year: 2002
Runtime: 170 minutes
Country: France, Germany, Spain
Keywords: german abroad, nazi occupied france, maquis, bicyclist, black market, lack of food, stealing documents, hand grenade, screenwriter, resistance

Plot:

In 1942, in Paris, the assistant director and member of the French resistance Jean-Devaivre joins the German studio Continental Films to be infiltrated and get a safe conduct. Through the years, he spies while making French movies produced by the Germans. Meanwhile, the wolf bourgeois screenwriter Jean Aurenche spends his shallow life with his three lovers - the artist Suzanne Raymond, the whore Olga, and Suzanne's friend and costume stylist - and trying to not collaborate with the Germans with his work.

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