Holidays in Hell (1961)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Holidays in Hell |
| Original title | Vacances en enfer |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1961 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jean Kerchbron |
| script | France Roche |
| production | Gilbert de Goldschmidt |
| music | François Rauber |
| camera | Marcel Fradetal |
| cut | Suzanne Baron |
| occupation | |
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Holidays in Hell (original title: Vacances en enfer ) is a French war drama from 1961 . The film is the adaptation of the 1955 novel Dieu reconnaîtra les siens ( German "God will recognize his own " ) by the writer Jean Bommart .
action
August 1944. The young soldier André Bourges (Michel Subor) has been on the run for a long time. He has been on the road since Russia and also escaped the SS. Persecuted from all sides, he meets the artel family in the Pyrenees. Monsieur Martel suffers from heart attacks and his wife, a former opera singer worries about the two children Catherine and Jean. Catherine falls in love with André and promises to take him to the Spanish border ...
reception
"Melodramatic story of resistance, deprived of the seriousness aimed for by hollow-sounding philosophy of life and a banal love story."
Web links
- Holiday in hell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Holidays in Hell in the online film database
- Entry at Cinema-Francais.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holidays in Hell. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 27, 2016 .