Line Of Demarcation (DVD)

From Claude Chabrol, the legendary director of Les Bonnes Femmes, The Third Lover, Le Boucher, LEnfer and La Ceremonie, comes this WWII thriller set in a small town in the Jura Mountains split in two by a border between Nazi-occupied France and the Free Zone. In 1941, Pierre (Maurice Ronet, The Fire Within, Purple Noon, The Champagne Murders), a demobilized French military officer and the Count de Damville, returns to this border village to find it occupied by the Germans. His English-born schoolteacher wife (Jean Seberg, Breathless, Lilith, Paint Your Wagon) and the towns citizens now belong to a Resistance group helping escaped prisoners reach the Free Zone. Co-starring Stephane Audran (Les Biches, The Twist, Babettes Feast) and Daniel Gelin (Napoleon, La Ronde, The Man Who Knew Too Much), and beautifully shot by the great Jean Rabier (The 400 Blows, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg).