La place d'une autre

Nélie rose out of poverty by becoming a nurse on the front line in 1914. During the war, she saw her friend Rose die, who was going to be hired as a reader to a bourgeois widow. Nélie assumed her identity and became Rose. In the hope that no one would discover her secret.

Directed by: Aurélia Georges (France, 2021)
Screenplay by: Maud Ameline, Aurélia Georges, based on the book by Wilkie Collins
Cast: Lyna Khoudri (Nélie), Sabine Azéma (Éléonore), Maud Wyler (Rose), Laurent Poitrenaux (Julien), Didier Brice (Massip), Lise Lamétrie (Honorine), Judith Leder (Émilienne), Marie Hattermann (Marthe)
Genre: drama
Awards: best film at Angoulême Film Festival (France, 2021); selected for Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland, 2021), Cinémania (Canada, 2021), Munich Film Festival (Germany, 2022) and Tromso Film Festival (Norway, 2022)