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2003 film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. In this award-winning film - an actress, a writer, a student, and a government worker band together in an effort to escape Paris as the Nazis move into the city. In Paris, a few months before the Nazi
invasion, the manipulative actress Viviane Denvers (Isabelle Adjani)
uses her former sweetheart Frédéric Auger (Grégori Deràngere) to hide
the body of a man killed by her. Frédéric hits the car, the dead man is
found and he is sent to prison. When the Germans invade France,
Frédéric escapes with another prisoner, Raoul (Yvan Attal), and they
become friends. In the runaway to Bordeaux, they meet in the train
Camille (Virginie Ledoyen), the young assistant of the physicist
Professeur Kopolski (Jean-Marc Stehlé), who is trying to leave France
with his research of heavy water. Once in Bordeaux, the group meets
Viviane with her new lover, the minister of state Jean-Étienne Beaufort
(Gérard Depardieu), and is chased by a German spy, the journalist Alex
Winckler (Peter Coyote), while Paris is falling and the population is
confused. In French, English and German. Rated PG-13 for some violence, 115
minutes.
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