THE DAMNED
| 1948 – 102′ – Drama, Adventure, Action, War, Classic.
Written by: René Clément, Jacques Rémy, Henri Jeanson, Jacques Companéez, Victor Alexandrov.
Directed by: René Clément.
Starring: Marcel Dalio, Paul Bernard, Henri Vidal, Anne Campion, Fosco Giachetti, Florence Marly, Michel auclair, Jeanne Herviale, Jean Didier.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 1947.
In French with English subtitles.
A Speva Films, Gaumont release. |
Oslo, April 19th 1945, as the Third Reich is living its last day, a group of Nazis and sympathizers (a Wehrmacht general, an SS leader and his “assistant”, an Italian industrialist and his wife who is also the general’s lover, a French collaborator) board a submarine that will take them to South America, where they hope to find shelter. While they sail off the shores of liberated Royan they manage to kidnap a French doctor to have him look after a wounded passenger. Dr Guilbert will be forced to share the restricted space of the submarine with the fugitives. The atmosphere soon becomes unbreathable…