Les Milles (1995)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.2/10   

Director:

Sébastien Grall

Escritores:

Sébastien Grall (screenplay)
Sébastien Grall (story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

23 agosto 1995 (France)

Género:

Drama | Guerra

Plot Keywords:

Shower Scene | WWII | Joke | Circus Freak | Bureaucracy

Premios:

1 win

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A forgotten side of history.

Reparto

Jean-Pierre Marielle	...	Cmndnt. Perrochon
Ticky Holgado	...	Capt. Moinard
Rüdiger Vogler	...	Lion Feuchtwanger
Philippe Noiret	...	Le général
Kristin Scott Thomas	...	Mary-Jane Cooper
François Perrot	...	Col. Maurice Charvet
François Berléand	...	Lt. Boisset
Jean-Marie Winling	...	Le médecin-chef Garraud
Bonnafet Tarbouriech	...	L'adjudant Bordier
Eric Petitjean	...	Sgt. Stora
Bruno Raffaelli	...	Jean Poinblanc
Hubert Saint-Macary	...	Locomotive mechanic
Jean-Yves Thual	...	Le nain
Henryk Bista	...	Otto von Offenberg
Jan Peszek	...	Alexander Hazenfoeder

También conocida como:

Les milles - Gefangen im Lager (Alemania)
Les milles: Le train de la liberté

Duración:

103 min

País:

France | Alemania | Poland

Idioma:

Francés

Color:

Color

Locaciones de Filmación:

Poland

Compañía:

Blue Films

A forgotten side of history.

This is a subject that deserved to be filmed:at the beginning of WW2,German political (or else)refugees came to France :there were artists (Max Ernst) ,a football champion,dwarves,Jews or soldiers who had refused to fight for Hitler.They arrived in the south of France where they thought they would be safe.The French had to improvise a camp,and the refugees to muck in:building latrines was not the least problem.But pretty soon,France was invaded by Hitler's armies and French officer(Philippe Noiret) decided to hand them over to their "compatriots".But his subordinate (Jean-Pierre Marielle) ,a resistant from the very beginning, requisitioned a train to take them to Spain.

Jean -Pierre Marielle plays a convincing colorful officer with a big heart;Philippe Noiret in a very short part of a couldn't -care -less type,recalls the one he played in "il deserto dei Tartari" (1976).The directing is OK but hesitates between comedy (no to say farce) and drama.Besides,this situation was tailor-made to show the absurdity of war,and the scenarists do nor rise above the anecdotal.One can dream of what a Dino Risi or an Ettore Scola -it was a subject for an Italian director- would have made of it.

Nevertheless, it's worth a watch.