A boy becomes a killer, a woman becomes his salvation, and the war becomes their bedroom.
During the Second World War, the Martel family hides out in the Pyrenees, waiting for hostilities to end. André, a young boy, saves them from an attack by bogus resistance fighters. Hunted from all sides, he flees to Spain. Catherine Martel leads him to the border, and a romance develops between them.
Cinematography
Pyrenees as prison and paradise — snow that suffocates and seduces.
Acting
Georges Poujouly's dead-eyed innocence will haunt you.
Director
Jean Kerchbron
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during the Algerian War's final years, the film's moral ambiguity reflected France's own crisis of conscience about resistance, collaboration, and colonial violence.
Michel Subor would later star in Le Samouraï and Beau Travail — this was his simmering origin.
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