Marie Dubois

An international car rally across Europe is complicated by smuggling, cheating, love at first sight, etc. etc. In an international car rally, competitors must travel from various points in Europe to Monte Carlo, then race their cars. Things are complicated by smuggling, cheating, honor, inventions, medicine, and love at first sight... —Anonymous The story is based on the Monte Carlo Rally, first raced in 1911, and the film recalls this general era, set in the 1920s. The epic car rally across Europe involves a lot of eccentric characters from all over the world who will stop at nothing to win.

Several ordinary Frenchmen go on an epic voyage through the occupied country to the free zone as they help British pilots avoid German captivity. A RAF Bomber is shot down over Paris by the Germans. Its crew land there by parachute. With the help of some French civilians they try to escape over the demarcation line into the southern part of France, still not occupied by the Germans. —Gerard Bader <badergac@wxs.nl> During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied Northern France and the South. From there they will be able to to escape to England. First, they must avoid German troops - and the consequences of their own blunders. —vlady@worldnet.att.net

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions. Set during World War II, and stuck on the beaches near Dunkirk, Julien Maillat tries to join England by boat with the English Army, but cannot succeed. He, then, tries to organize the life for him and his soldiers friends between German raids and shells. —Jean-Yves Simon <simon@wotangate.micro.ti.com> Dunkirk, June 1 and 2, 1940: Sergent Julien Maillat is one of a group of scattered French soldiers waiting on the beach at Dunkirk with the men of the British Expeditionary Force to be taken across the Channel to England. The German Luftwaffe is constantly flying missions that claim many victims. The British initially only evacuate their own men; after Maillat finally manages to board a ship with the help of a sympathetic British officer, it is hit by German bombs. Maillat manages to get back ashore. He ventures back into the town, which is already under German artillery fire and is also being bombed from the air. In the hail of bombs, he meets the courageous young Jeanne, who convinces herself that her parents' house will survive the inferno of war if she can hold out in it. Maillat rescues her from two comrades who have broken into the house and are about to rape her. He has no choice but to shoot them. This is not the only thing that burdens him from then on; the thought that he has left the young woman alone afterwards is also unbearable. —Arte