
Plot outline
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Cast
- Sophie Marceau
- Julie Depardieu
- Marie Gillain
- Déborah François
- Moritz Bleibtreu
- Maya Sansa
- Julien Boisselier
- Vincent Rottiers
- Volker Bruch
- Robin Renucci
- Xavier Beauvois
- Colin David Reese
- Jurgen Mash
- Conrad Cecil
- Alexandre Jazede
- David Capelle
- Wolfgang Pissors
- Chantal Garrigues
- James Gerard
- Edward Hamilton-Clark
- Marc Bertolini
- Rainer Sievert
- Ashley Wanninger
- Natasha Cashman
- Stanislas Kemper
- Simon Boyle
- Olivier De Wispelaere
- Johannes Oliver Hamm
- David Van Severen
- Sarah Tullamore
- Philippe Soutan
- Yves Heck
- Stéphane Foenkinos
- Christophe Grofer
- Stefan Kollmuss
- Fabian Arning
- Olivier Beraud-Bedouin
- Alex Lutz
- Jan Oliver Schroeder
- Serge Onteniente
- Antoine Salomé
- Andrew W. Wilson
- Ida Techer
- Frédéric Deltour
- Romain Francisco
- Benjamin Garnier
Plots
London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.
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 through Normandy, in a dangerous mission.
In May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy, and to kill a German SS colonel who is close to figuring out the imminent secret of D-Day, proves to be emotional and brutal. The story is inspired by the accomplishments of decorated SOE agent Lisé de Baissac.