movie poster for LACOMBE LUCIEN

Flicks ID

9088

Cert

15

Running time

132 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

LACOMBE LUCIEN (1974)

LOUIS MALLE

Plot

Lacombe is a young French peasant who wants to join the resistance but is considered too young, so instead he joins the Gestapo! He enjoys his power but soon falls in love with a Jewish girl. This can be seen as Malle's answer to the question who colloborates? The film maps the mechanics of compromise with precision and without histronics. Another superb film from the great French director.