Suite Française (2015) on Netflix
In occupied France, Lucile Angellier and her mother-in-law wait for news of her soldier husband. German troops move into the villagers' homes, and Bruno von Falk is billeted with the Angelliers.
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Plot summary
Lucile Angellier lives in a small French town with her domineering mother-in-law, Madame Angellier, and both wait for word of Gaston, Lucile's husband, who is with the French Army. After the French surrender, a German regiment arrives and takes rooms in the villagers' own houses; the officer assigned to the Angelliers, Bruno von Falk, comes from the German nobility. Lucile tries to ignore him, yet his courteous manner and the piano music he plays draw her in. Word reaches her that Gaston's unit is held in a German camp. Farmer Benoît Labarie, kept out of the fighting by a leg wound, hides a rifle, and the German officer Kurt Bonnet harasses Madeleine, Benoît's wife.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Suite Française (2015)
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- Irène Némirovsky wrote Suite Française in secret during the Nazi occupation of France and never finished it; arrested in 1942 for being Jewish, she died in Auschwitz, and her handwritten manuscript lay unread in a suitcase for nearly sixty years until her daughter found it.
- Director Saul Dibb wanted Bruno's piano piece composed before shooting so it could play through the film as a developing theme. Alexandre Desplat wrote Bruno's Theme but was unable to write the final score and was replaced by Rael Jones.
