Alternative Title Female Agents
Alternative Title 2
Original Title Les femmes de l'ombre
Original Language French
Leading Actor Sophie Marceau
Second Actor Julie Depardieu
Third Actor Moritz Bleibtreu
Director Jean-Paul Salomé
Second Director
Producer Éric Névé
Scriptwriter Jean-Paul Salomé
Film Type Drama
Country France
Date of Original Release 01/01/2008 00:00:00
Synopsis In 1944, in London, Lieutenant Pierre Desfontaines assigns his sister Louise Desfontaines to convince three other women to form a five-woman task force under his command to rescue a British geologist from a German hospital in the countryside. The geologist was assigned by Colonel Maurice Buckmaster in a reconnaissance mission of the soil of the beaches at Normandy for the D-Day and had been captured by the Germans. Louise and Pierre force the prostitute Jeanne Faussier that is imprisoned for murdering her pimp; the explosives expert Gaëlle Lemenech that misses action; and the former dancer and fiancé of Colonel Karl Heindrich, Suzy Desprez, using blackmail and unethical methods to fly to France and join the Italian agent Maria Luzzato in the assignment. They are well-succeeded but when they deliver the geologist to the British aeroplane, Pierre betrays the group. He forces the women to travel to Paris to kill Colonel Heindrich who suspects that the landing of the allied forces will be…
Part No 1
Production Company Les Chauves-Souris, Banque Populaire Images 7, Banque Populaire Images 8
Cinematographer Pascal Ridao
Composer Bruno Coulais
Editor Marie-Pierre Renaud
Title Number 3855
Date of Original Transmission
Date of Recording for the Library
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Length of Program 113
Colour Colour
Sound 5.1 DD
Screen Type 16:9
Subtitled English
Dubbed
Series
Department FRENCH
Video Format DVD REGION 2
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