Movie: Résistantes

Top 8 Billed Cast

Line Renaud
Line Renaud

Mère Madeleine en 1970

Jade Foucart
Jade Foucart

Solange Gauthier

Béatrice Facquer
Béatrice Facquer

Mère Madeleine en 1944

Jonathan Zaccaï
Jonathan Zaccaï

Armand Gauthier / Maire

Élodie Navarre
Élodie Navarre

Gisèle Gauthier

Marie Mallia
Marie Mallia

Rosine Chabert

Jochen Hägele
Jochen Hägele

Commandant Hartmann

Mila Rigaudon
Mila Rigaudon

Rachel

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    1944. In France, devastated by the German occupation, part of the population resists the yoke of the occupiers, men and women who become heroes despite themselves by becoming active members of the Vaucluse resistance. Mother Madeleine, head of an institute for deaf girls, is one of these heroic women. She hides Jewish children and members of the Resistance in her convent, in defiance of the German threat.

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    2025-05-07

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