A Love to Hide
| A Love to Hide | |
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| Directed by | Christian Faure |
| Screenplay by | Pascal Fontanille Samantha Mazeras |
| Produced by | François Aramburu Laetitia Bartoli Pascal Fontanille |
| Starring | Jérémie Renier Charlotte de Turckheim Bruno Todeschini Michel Jonasz Louise Monot Nicolas Gob |
| Cinematography | Svetlana Ganeva |
| Edited by | Jean-Daniel Fernandez-Qundez |
| Music by | Charles Court |
Release date |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
A Love to Hide(French title:Un amour à taire) is a 2005 French film made for television, directed byChristian Faure.[1]It is loosely based on the bookMoi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuelbyPierre Seel.
Plot summary
[edit]The action takes place inFranceduring theSecond World War.
A young Jewish girl, Sarah, is looking to escape the clutches of theThird Reichafter seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape toEngland.Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood friend Jean, a homosexual in a clandestine relationship with his lover Philippe.
They are safe for the moment, thanks to Jean's plan to pass her off as a Christian employee of his laundromat, under the name Yvonne. However, a bad decision made by Jean's troublesome brother Jacques causes Jean to be wrongly accused of being the lover of a German officer. Jean is then forced into a Nazilabor camp.
Cast
[edit]- Jeremie Renieras Jean Lavandier
- Charlotte de Turckheimas Marcelle Lavandier
- Bruno Todeschinias Philippe
- Michel Jonaszas Armand Lavandier
- Louise Monotas Sarah Morgenstern
- Nicolas Gobas Jacques Lavandier
- Olivier Saladinas Breton
- Yulian Vergovas Johann Von Berg
Production
[edit]A Love to Hideis the second film of directorChristian Fauredealing with homosexuality. He had previously directedJust a Question of Love(2000), a made-for-television film chronicling a love story between two young men.
This is one of few films about the deportation of homosexuals duringWorld War II.(Also seeBent.)A Love to Hideis loosely based on the bookMoi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuelbyPierre Seelpublished in 1994.
Reception
[edit]TheVariety Magazinefelt the film was sometimes "over-rigged in script and direction"but nonetheless gave a positive review.[1]
References
[edit]- ^abHarvey, Dennis (2006-06-26)."A Love to Hide".Variety.Retrieved2024-01-24.
External links
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