The Cross of Lorraine
(1943)
Directed by Tay
Garnett this film stars Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly and Sir Cedric
Hardwicke. Following the fall of France in 1940 a group of French
soldiers are taking to a POW camp and find life is not as they
expected.
Loosely based on the
real life experiences of Hans Habe this film was clearly a propaganda
effort made to help explain to American audiences the conditions in
occupied Europe. How realistic the story is is probably open to
question but it is a fairly similar to a number of other POW films
set in the era. The film does open up some questions on the harsh
choices between resistance and collaboration but is never really in a
position to explore these fully due to the propaganda nature of the
film.
3/5
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