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La Ligne de démarcation
FRANCE · 1966

La Ligne de démarcation

Claude Chabrol
World War II French Resistance Occupied France Espionage Escape and Evasion
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Synopsis

It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel Rémy. A small village in the Jura is split by the river Loue which creates the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and freedom. A French officer, Pierre, is released by the Nazi soldiers to find his chateau converted into a German comma

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