Lacombe, Lucien (1974) on Netflix
In 1944 France, seventeen-year-old Lucien Lacombe is rejected by the Resistance for his youth. He joins the French arm of the Gestapo and falls for France Horn, a Jewish girl in hiding.
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Plot summary
Lucien Lacombe is seventeen and unhappy with his job at a nursing home in the rural southwest of France. He goes to the farm his mother runs while his father is a prisoner of war in Germany, then asks the local Resistance leader, his former teacher Robert Peyssac, to take him in. Peyssac refuses, saying he is too young and not devoted enough to the cause. Walking back to town after curfew, Lucien is picked up outside the hotel used as headquarters by the Carlingue, the French arm of the Gestapo, and they recruit him. The aristocratic Jean-Bernard takes him under his wing, and Lucien enjoys the power his position brings. He becomes enamored of France Horn, a Jewish girl who lives in hiding with her father and grandmother.
Cast
- Cécile Ricardas Marie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
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- Louis Malle wrote the screenplay with novelist Patrick Modiano, but the film began as Le faucon ("The Falcon") and was set in present-day Mexico; because Malle was not allowed to shoot in Mexico or Chile, the story was reworked into a wartime French setting and retitled Le milicien ("The Milice Man").
