fascist.
When Thibault reaches Ciboure, the Germans are already there. After slapping a German officer, Madeleine is forced to go into hiding in her father Hyppolite's house along with fellow villager Jourdan, who hit a German officer and killed a young Frenchman who joined the ranks of the fascists. Charles comes to visit the house and discovers Jourdan. Later that day the house is raided by German officials. Jourdan is not found, but a shadow of suspicion falls on Charles.
Madeleine agrees to act in a play in front of the Germans, during which her heroine kills her former lover. During the performance, which is attended by Charles, Madeleine shoots and kills the local “Fuhrer” who is in the audience. With the help of a costume designer at the theatre, she and Greene manage to escape; however, a little later, Greene is mortally wounded on the street and tells Madeleine that Charles was among the three who attacked him.
The costume designer's son initiates Madeleine into the
Resistance Movement
A resistance movement is an organized effort by some portion of the civil population of a country to withstand the legally established government or an occupying power and to disrupt civil order and stability. It may seek to achieve its objective ...
. After the end of the war, she arrives in Ciboure and learns that the Germans hung Philip before leaving the city: he also participated in the Resistance. Charles arrives with a group of friends and Madeleine recognizes one of the German officers who was looking for Jourdan in their village house. Madeleine accuses Charles of reporting his father. While he assures her that he had no part in his father's arrest and execution, he refuses to go with her to the police. Fearing exposure, he threatens her with a revolver but is unable to kill her. In the conflict, one of his friends shoots her instead.
Charles and his friends are arrested; the investigator, who recorded the testimony of Madeleine Thibault, comes to their cell to release them, revealing that he worked with the Germans during the war and continues to sympathize with them.
Madeleine Thibault dies from her wounds. Ten years pass, Charles arrives in Ciboure, and in the restaurant, he is recognized by the costume designer's son, who knows nothing about his past. His mother's friend Charles reports that Madeleine Thibault's murderers have not yet been found. Then he begins to praise
FDR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (; ; January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. As the ...
, to which the dresser's son, realizing who is in front of him, replies: “France is no longer the same. And it's not easy to break. No matter how they marched there”.
Cast
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Yevgeniya Kozyreva as Madeleine Thibault
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Mikhail Kozakov
Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozakov (in Russian: Михаил Михайлович Козаков) (14 October 1934, Leningrad – 22 April 2011, Ramat Gan) was a Soviet, Russian and Israeli film and theatre director and actor.
Biography Early life
Mik ...
as Charles Thibault, Madeleine's son
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Nikolai Komissarov as Hippolyte, Madeleine's father
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Maksim Shtraukh
Maksim Maksimovich Shtraukh (russian: Макси́м Макси́мович Штра́ух; 1900–1974) was a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. He was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1965, Lenin Prize and Stalin Prize betwee ...
as Philipp Thibault, Madeleine's husband
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Rostislav Plyatt
Rostislav Yanovich Plyatt (russian: Ростислав Янович Плятт; — 30 June 1989) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1961 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982.
Biograph ...
as Grin, Madeleine's impresario
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Georgiy Vitsin
Georgy Mikhailovich Vitsin (russian: Георгий Михайлович Вицин; 18 April 1917 – 22 October 2001) was a Soviet and Russian actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1990).
Biography
Vitsin was born in Terijoki, former Finla ...
as Pitou
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Aleksandr Pelevin
Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
as Jacques
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Anatoliy Kubatskiy as Isidore
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Pavel Shpringfeld as Fiancé
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Elena Ponsova as Madam Coupot
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Leonid Gubanov
Leonid Ivanovich Gubanov (russian: Леонид Иванович Губанов; 2 August 1928 – 24 February 2004) was a Soviet Russian actor, theater director, master of the artistic word (reader).
Born in village of Rybatskoye in Leningrad ...
as Madam Coupot's son
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Gennadi Yudin
Gennady Petrovich Yudin (russian: Геннадий Петрович Юдин; 27 March 1923, Moscow – 13 November 1989, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. Laureate of Stalin Prize (1951). Filmography
* ''The Russian Question ...
as actor
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Oleg Golubitsky
Oleg (russian: Олег), Oleh ( uk, Олег), or Aleh ( be, Алег) is an East Slavic given name. The name is very common in Russia, Ukraine and Belаrus. It derives from the Old Norse ''Helgi'' ( Helge), meaning "holy", "sacred", or "bless ...
as Claude Junod
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Valentin Gaft
Valentin Iosifovich Gaft (russian: Валенти́н Ио́сифович Гафт; 2 September 1935 – 12 December 2020) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was People's Artist of the RSFSR (1984).
Biography Early life and education
Gaft was ...
Валентин Гафт прокомментировал попадание в украинский "черный список"
/ref> as Marseille Rouger
* Aleksandr Shatov
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Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...
as Detective
* Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky (russian: Иннокентий Михайлович Смоктуновский; born ''Smoktunovich'', 28 March 19253 August 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named a People's Artist ...
as a young fascist
References
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{{Mikhail Romm
1956 films
1950s Russian-language films
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Mosfilm films
Soviet crime drama films
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1956 drama films