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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Jean-Paul Salomé (writer)
Laurent Vachaud (writer)
Release Date:
5 March 2008 (Belgium) more
Plot:
In May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special... more | full synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
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Highly recommended more (16 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sophie Marceau | ... | Louise Desfontaines |
 | Julie Depardieu | ... | Jeanne Faussier |
 | Marie Gillain | ... | Suzy Desprez |
| Déborah François | ... | Gaëlle Lemenech |
| Moritz Bleibtreu | ... | SS Colonel Heindrich |
 | Maya Sansa | ... | Maria Luzzato |
| Julien Boisselier | ... | Pierre Desfontaines |
| Vincent Rottiers | ... | Eddy |
 | Volker Bruch | ... | Lieutenant Becker |
| Robin Renucci | ... | Melchior |
| Xavier Beauvois | ... | Charles Granville |
 | Colin David Reese | ... | Colonel Maurice Buckmaster |
| Jurgen Mash | ... | Gerd Von Rundstedt |
| Conrad Cecil | ... | Le géologue anglais |
| Alexandre Jazede | ... | René Bourienne |
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Female Agents (International: English title)
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Germany:117 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | Ireland:15A | Australia:MA | Portugal:M/12 | UK:15 | Germany:16 | New Zealand:R16 | Singapore:R21 (cut) | France:U (with warning)
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Anachronisms: The film portrays events leading up to the events of D-Day, yet the aircraft parachuting the girls into France displays invasion stripes, which were painted onto aircraft at the time of the D-Day landings to ease recognition of Allied aircraft. more
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I happened to see 'The Dark Knight' the night before I saw this, and felt somewhat unsatisfied by it. This film (which I hadn't even heard of until yesterday) by contrast, provided what I'd been looking for: dark, yes - very, but evoking real emotional depth and a sense of the ambiguity and terrible moral choices that have to be faced in wartime. And completely gripping, excellently acted. The fact that the underlying scenario has been used before is completely irrelevant - how many films have been made about 'two people falling in love' for example? This is not only an excellently realised 'wartime adventure' story - it's a harrowing and thought-provoking film which will definitely stay with you. Get to see it if you can.