Lovers Woods

Overview

1943, Christmas Eve in occupied Brittany. Charles, a member of the Resistance, is parachuted into the house of his mother, Madame Parisot, where he meets Herta, a young German woman who has come to accompany her officer husband. Despite the situation, the two young people fall in love and protect each other, but their love is short-lived, interrupted at dawn by a deadly English bomb.

Directed by Claude Autant-Lara

Top cast

Laurent Terzieff

Charles Parisot

Erika Remberg

Hertha von Stauffen

Horst Frank

General von Stauffen

Gert Fröbe

General

Claude Farell

Françoise Rosay

Madame Parisot

L

Lutz Gabor

Lieutenant Müller

R

Richard Larke

R.A.F. Instructor Lieutenant

C

Christian Melsen

Claude Vernier

German soldier

M

Monique Bertho

Jeannette

Hans Verner

Interpreter

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