Between Love and Duty
1960 film by Claude Autant-Lara
Between Love and Duty (French: Le bois des amants, Italian: Il bosco degli amanti) is a 1960 French-Italian war drama film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and starring Laurent Terzieff, Erika Remberg, Horst Frank and Gert Fröbe. Set during the Second World War, it draws inspiration from the plot of the much older play Terre inhumaine by François de Curel. It was shot at the Billancourt Studios in Paris and extensively on location around Finistère. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy.
Synopsis
In 1943 in Brittany during the German Occupation, Hertha von Stauffen arrives to stay with her husband, a colonel in the Germany Arm. However while her husband is away, she encounters Charles Parisot, a local French Resistance operative, who is on a mission to guide British RAF bombers for a raid. The two quickly fall in love, but it is a doomed relationship in the midst of the war.
Cast
Laurent Terzieff as Charles Parisot
Erika Remberg as Hertha von Stauffen
Horst Frank as Le colonel von Stauffen
Françoise Rosay as Madame Parisot
Gert Fröbe as Le général
Lutz Gabor as Le lieutenant Müller
Richard Larke as Le lieutenant-instructeur de la R.A.F.
Claude Vernier as Un soldat allemand
Monique Bertho as Jeannette
Hans Verner as L'interprète/Interpreter
Marcel Bernier as Un soldat allemand
Albert Daumergue as Le sommelier
Gottfried John as Le téléphoniste
Claude Farell as Unknown role
References
Bibliography
Gili, Jean A. & Tassone, Aldo. Parigi-Roma: 50 anni di coproduzioni italo-francesi (1945-1995). Editrice Il castoro, 1995.
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