The Blue Island

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2001 / 84min.

Rating4.333

Genres

Drama

Romance

War

Synopsis

France, 1940. German troops have just invaded the country, but in the rural idyll of the family chateau inhabited by 20-year-old Mellie with her impoverished aristocrat father Alexandre and adolescent cousin Robinson, the war still seems far away, apart from the fact that Mellie's rich and unpopular fiancé André has been drafted into the army. For Robinson and his friends the same age, including the temperamental Bertrand, the war is merely a game they play in the remoteness of the blue island in the lake.

Directors

Nadine Trintignant

Actors

Manuel Blanc

Anja Kruse

Julie Delarme

Pierre Arditi

Anouk Aimée

Clovis Cornillac

Évelyne Bouix

Alka Balbir

Pierre Vernier

Jérôme Hardelay

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