Lacombe Lucien
Lacombe, Lucien is a 1974 French war drama film by Louis Malle about a French teenage boy during the German occupation of France in World War II.
Plot
In June 1944, as the Allies are fighting the Germans in Normandy, Lucien Lacombe, a 17-year-old country boy, tries to join the Resistance. The local Resistance leader, the village school teacher, turns him down on grounds of age. Lucien travels back to the town where he works by bicycle and stumbles on the hotel that is the headquarters of the Carlingue, the French auxiliaries of the Gestapo, and is taken into custody. Under the influence of alcohol, he betrays the teacher, who is brought in and tortured. Seeing that Lucien could be useful, the Carlingue recruit him into their lawless regime of extortion and terror.
More details
| author | Louis Malle Patrick Modiano |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Southwestern France |
| director | Louis Malle |
| editor | Suzanne Baron |
| events | German military administration in occupied France during World War II |
| genre | drama romance |
| keywords | abandon allies of world war ii ally arrest battle of normandy carlingue collaborator condemn epilogue fight francoist spain french resistance german soldier gestapo jewish girl kill military tribunal normandy resistance school teacher seclude spain village school wartime collaboration win |
| musicBy | Django Reinhardt |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best International Feature Film International Submission to the Academy Awards |
| producer | Claude Nedjar Louis Malle |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures UniFrance |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox Cinema International Corporation Constantin Film filmportal.de |
| theme | romantic drama war |