The Day and the Hour
Classic French Cinema
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1h 53m
Directed by René Clément • Drama • 1963 • France • French, German with English subtitles
Starring Simone Signoret, Stuart Whitman
International screen icon Simone Signoret stars in this powerful World War II drama directed by René Clément. Signoret is superb as Thérèse, an isolated woman who unwittingly gets involved in the Resistance when British and American planes are shot down over Nazi-occupied France. She reluctantly agrees to smuggle the pilots into neutral Spain, and along the way finds herself falling in love.
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