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Marie-Octobre
FRANCE · 1959

Marie-Octobre

Julien Duvivier
betrayal resistance fighters post-war guilt murder mystery identity revelation
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Synopsis

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personal

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