This may be the worst movie dealing with the Occupation of my country in WW2 which has ever been made.So many implausibilities ,bad acting (particularly Petra Davies as the "heroine" ) ,poor plot and cheap low-budget production .
Everybody speaks English in this small village (the movie was made in 1962,all the same ,and at the time ,they knew what" interpreter" meant :the handsome officer -once again ,a very bland actor- ,an educated man majoring in medicine could have spoken French (English) ,albeit with a German accent ,but as for the others !and the French are all supposed to understand their conquerors!
Never,never in a month of Sundays ,French resistant fighters would have convened in a cafe ,openly and publicly to discuss plans :they were heroes in the shadows ,they had pseuds ,it was a secret network:because of informing which would run rampant,nobody knew who they were .These men and women had little victories but big defeats ,in the movie ,it's too good to be true.
And how dumb the officer must have been, not to see the connection between the attacks of the fighters and Maria's frequent visits to the Château he has commandeered (he may be a wine connaisseur "1929 is a good year for wine" ,but a military dunce).
One can save a good scene :the seventeen -year-old young man ,about to be shot,refuses to be blindfolded and ,for the last time,smiles at his sister.
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