In occupied Paris, an actress (Catherine Deneuve) married to a Jewish theater owner (Heinz Bennent) must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Truffaut commented "this film is not concerned merely with anti-semitism but intolerance in general" and a tolerance is shown through the characters of Jean Poiret playing a homosexual director and Andrea Ferreol plays a lesbian designer. As in Truffaut's earlier film Jules et Jim, there is a love triangle between the three principal characters: Marion Steiner (Deneuve), her husband Lucas (Heinz Bennent) and Bernard Granger (Depardieu), an actor in the theatre's latest production.
Although I was not terribly impressed by this movie, I did appreciate that it had both Deneuve and Depardieu. Deneuve is arguably the greatest French actress of the 1960s-1980s. Depardieu is rather young here and did not really become internationally famous or another decade, thanks to such fluff as "My Father the Hero". Seeing both together in one film is great.
Truffaut commented "this film is not concerned merely with anti-semitism but intolerance in general" and a tolerance is shown through the characters of Jean Poiret playing a homosexual director and Andrea Ferreol plays a lesbian designer. As in Truffaut's earlier film Jules et Jim, there is a love triangle between the three principal characters: Marion Steiner (Deneuve), her husband Lucas (Heinz Bennent) and Bernard Granger (Depardieu), an actor in the theatre's latest production.
Although I was not terribly impressed by this movie, I did appreciate that it had both Deneuve and Depardieu. Deneuve is arguably the greatest French actress of the 1960s-1980s. Depardieu is rather young here and did not really become internationally famous or another decade, thanks to such fluff as "My Father the Hero". Seeing both together in one film is great.