Cast
Pierre Blaise 
Aurore Clément Holger Löwenadler
Credits
Written by: 
Louis Malle
Plot
A teenage farm boy in occupied France drifts into collaboration with the Gestapo.
Sinekatalog’s take
Louis Malle's controversial wartime drama follows a rural teen who drifts into collaboration. Cool and morally unsettling, with a non-professional lead, it refuses easy judgement and shows evil's banality.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.6 / 10 (8,539 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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