Friday, October 24, 2025

We're very fragile creatures

World War II. A young Frenchman, for no real reason, joins the German police force to fight against the French resistance, his fellow countrymen. In his sense of power, he imagines that he has the right to do whatever he wants. However, falling in love with a Jewish girl is against Nazi ideology. Lacombe, Lucien is a classic by Louis Malle from 1974. Unfortunately, the career of the main actor Pierre Blaise was cut short by a car accident in 1975, at the age of 20.

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