France 1939: One Last Summer
A collection of home movies, diaries and letters from the last summer before the start of the Second World War reveals how far the impending conflict was away from the minds of ordinary French people.
2019-05-30 | 61 minutes
Plot Summary
Gustave Folcher, a French farmer, wrote in his 1939 diary that the summer had been long and hot. He was not alone. Many other anonymous French men and women wrote of the beauty and warmth of those summer months and how threats of war were far from their minds. Through home movies, diaries and letters, One Last Summer describes the final weeks of peace in France and the mix of blindness, denial and prophetic clear-sightedness of those facing the war that was about to unfold.
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
The Tin Drum
-
Pearl Harbor
-
The Last Emperor
-
Hitler's 9/11
-
World War Two: A Timewatch Guide
-
Munich
-
Downfall
-
Das Boot
-
Schindler's List
-
The Chest of Ryou
-
Chief Rabbi's Emergency Council
-
Great Escape
-
Seven Years in Tibet
-
Más allá de la alambrada: la memoria del horror
-
Besa: The Promise
-
Extranjeros de sí mismos
-
Mirror
-
The Forgotten Battle
-
Five Came Back
-
De Bevrijding van Den Haag