They are twenty years old, they are students and they love each other. But this is war, the Germans occupied Paris. Then they, students, lovers, want to fight. They will engage, even if we support the militia, even if we pretend. They are daring to be paying a high price ... "Christmas and Clotilde, I know you. I experienced this time with you. I have an ear the sharp crack of wooden soles, in the eye deployment corolla light dresses in your
Pedaled Sunday. There was war, of course. But above all, love and hunger. The fear of death and fear as to survive and be ashamed ... "Jean Cosmos (From the foreword) Michel Wyn, with a sensitivity and vitality that he has never failed throughout his career as a director, gives us, with his first novel Twenty years the fortieth year, a page in our history ambiguous. They have everything for them: they are young, beautiful, beautiful and engaging in studies. Only now, we are in 1943, terrible year for France: German atrocities are going well. There is the militia, the Gestapo, the hunt for Jews, ... arrests.
From all this Christmas and Clotilde, our two lovers are aware, and want to do something and get involved. It is the "ch'nord" outcome of the provincial bourgeoisie, but it suits Catholic ... a bit ..
He is from St Etienne to a respectable family of workers, having already paid a heavy price for the folly of men, and the father, although the "good side" seemed to be a good father tranquil does not make waves.
We are not two meals Petainists quite the contrary.
"You can not imagine !.... was ashamed to be a man when you see what they do. "
" A Look to the right, a look left: nobody! Christmas displays and the tears ran away towards Montmartre. "
Only here by wanting to do well, this good Christmas, this is The Ref, to burn their wings. Resist playing it both ways is not to everyone.
Their love will survive there for these events?
There are those faithful to their ideals and their moral take the path of active resistance, those who stand in their way in their everyday acts, such as unsung heroes, who hid here and there those that are persecuted.
"Me, they did nothing, the Jews. I do not understand that the Marshal leaves his poor persecuted people "
And then there are the bastards, the collaborators, who ate all the racks, and when the wind run like rats, will leave the ship not to sink with him.
That the troubled times experienced by the country during those years, and the author with a lively pen has been able to demonstrate, to make a book at once light as easy and pleasant to read, and both deep in the analysis of ambiguous feelings that young people may feel thrown into a conflict that ultimately transcends them.
I have both the sentence and the angry young man. The penalty because I believe deeply sincere in his convictions human, and his desire to do well. My suspicion of anger, because how can we be so naive?
Clotilde has been smarter.
Michel Wyn-edition-276 pages Kyklos
young graduate of Political Science and IDHEC Michel Wyn began his career by becoming the assistant director of great filmmakers such as René Clément, Henri Verneuil, Christian-Jaque, Andre Hunebelle, Vincente Minnelli, Joshua Logan, Romain Gary, Stanley Donen, and participates in the filming of famous movies such as "Paris brule-t he?" The President " "The Black Tulip", etc..
In 1964, he directed a short film "One Day" which received the Grand Prix of Indian cinema and the Golden Gate Award 1964 (San Francisco). With the passion that characterizes Michel Wyn opens major television series. In film, he directed two feature films: "Suspects" and "Forget Me Mandolin," a comedy screenplay by Jacques Faizant.Il writes in passing "The film and its techniques" and various scenarios and plays . Michel Wyn is also the author of two books recounting the course of an intense life of service the staging:
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