Les Milles, le train de la liberté
No upcoming broadcast (for now).
1940. Jews, communists and other opponents of the Nazi regime are interned in the Les Milles camp near Aix-en-Provence. Amongst them are many who fled Hitler's Germany back in 1933. But as France has just signed the armistice, Major Perrochon can't bring himself to hand them over to the Nazis...
Directed by: Sébastien Grall (France/Germany/Poland, 1995)
Musique : Alexandre Desplat
Cast: Jean-Pierre Marielle (Major Perrochon), Ticky Holgado (Moinard), Rüdiger Vogler (Lion Feuchtwanger), Philippe Noiret (the general), Kristin Scott-Thomas (Mary-Jane Cooper), François Berléand (Boisset)
Genre: comedy drama