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.
Acting
Kassovitz's slippery charm makes you root for a fraud.
Writing
Screenplay bites into French myth-making like a baguette with teeth.
Direction
Audiard's debut feature already shows his ruthless humanism.
Director
Jacques Audiard
Mathieu Kassovitz
Albert Dehousse
Anouk Grinberg
Servane
Sandrine Kiberlain
Yvette
Albert Dupontel
Dionnet
Jean-Louis Trintignant
Albert Dehousse (old)
Nadia Barentin
Madame Louvier / Madame Revuz / The General's Wife
Bernard Bloch
Ernst
François Chattot
Louvier
Philippe Duclos
Caron
Danièle Lebrun
Madame Dehousse
Wilfred Benaïche
Henry Nervoix
François Berléand
Monsieur Jo
Philippe Bérodot
Leguen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film savages France's 'resistancialist' myth—the national delusion that most French were secretly Resistance fighters.
Kassovitz had just directed La Haine; Audiard cast him partly because he wanted that same volatile intelligence contained, not explosive.
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