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London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.
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- 1 nomination total
Déborah François
- Gaëlle Lemenech
- (as Deborah François)
Colin David Reese
- Maurice Buckmaster
- (as Colin-David Reese)
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This is the story of four girls recruited in the latter part of WWII, who are dropped into occupied France, and reek havok to rescue a captured British spy, caught in France posing as a geologist. It is often bloody and gritty, but totally convincing, and never boring. I read a previous comment that described it as a "Made for TV movie". Well all i can say is, they certainly don't make war movies with full frontal nudity and torture scenes, and show them on my TV. The fact that this is the story of women doing what we would generally have expected only men did during the war, is what what I found so interesting. I'll never chain my wife to the cooker again. An excellent, entertaining, well made film. The acting is totally convincing, particularly Sophie Marceau, who plays the lead role. 7.5/10
- bob_hamer2004
- Oct 14, 2008
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- TriviaOne of the inspirations for the film came when director Jean-Paul Salomé read "The Times" in London one morning whilst on post-production of Adventures of Arsene Lupin (2004). Salomé saw a full page devoted to Lise Villameur, a French Resistance agent who worked for the SOE, the Special Operations Executive created by Winston Churchill during the Second World War. She had just died at the age of 98. She had been a real heroine and Britain paid tribute to her. Intrigued by her story, Salomé started doing some research with the help of historian Olivier Wieviorka. Salomé discovered that other women had been SOE agents. They were among the fifty or so agents of the "French Section" that were trained in England before working for the Allies in occupied WWII France.
- GoofsThe film portrays events leading up to the events of D-Day, yet the aircraft parachuting the girls into France displays invasion stripes, which were painted onto aircraft at the time of the D-Day landings to ease recognition of Allied aircraft.
- Quotes
Louise Desfontaines: Besides explosives what do you do for De Gaulle? Do you ever go on missions?
Gaëlle Lemenech: Never. It's my only regret. Making bombs without blowing them up is frustrating.
Louise Desfontaines: You can vent your frustration with me in France.
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- Also known as
- Жінки - агенти
- Filming locations
- Collège Franco-Britannique, 9b boulevard de Jourdan, Paris 14, Paris, France(scenes at the SOE London headquarters)
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- Budget
- €17,123,930 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $9,274,983
- Runtime2 hours 28 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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