A Love to Hide
by Christian Faure
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Actor: Bruno Todeschini, Charlotte de Turckheim, J?r?mie Renier, Louise Monot, Michel JonaszDirector: Christian Faure
Brand: WOLFE VIDEO
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Picture This
DVD Reviews of A Love to Hide
DVD Review: Educational, wonderful and extremely brutal
Summary: 4 Stars
OMG !!! How do I explain my feelings on this film? I think it deserves both 3 stars and 5 stars.
I am glad that I saw this film and yet it has left me haunted about what homosexuals endured at the hands of Nazi Germany during World War 2. Don't get me wrong, it's not only the torture and death of homosexuals that deeply moves me and fills me with sadness, I fully recognize that many other groups were targeted for torture and murder such as Jewish people, the physically and mentally handicapped, Catholics/other religions and other various groups but this film focuses on what happened to homosexuals. I wasn't prepared for the brutally honest don't-be-afraid-to hide-anything approach. This film is not for the faint-hearted, if it doesn't bring tears to your eyes many times, ummmm, I don't know how you do it. This is not a fun light movie night film.
I would never ask anyone that has endured, truly endured, the horrible brutality, killing, hatred and wickedness of war to watch this, they already know what went on and don't need the harsh psychological reminder. Also gay people may find it very difficult to watch as this deals not only with war, but the horrendous torture of homosexuals at the hands of the Nazis. Yet, as I have never experienced war firsthand, this film is educational, even though it is extremely difficult to watch, it teaches the viewer the evil we humans are capable of, rather too easily capable of, I would say.
This film tells an important story - humankind can easily act evil towards humans for a myriad of excuses that center around our differences. Evil punishes our differences, whether religious, sexual orientation, intellectual, physical, mental, gender.......
This film will shock most of you, the depths of evil that we are capable of is unreal.
DVD Review: touching and beautiful
Summary: 5 Stars
Powerful and poignant, this movie took my breath away. The movie starts out with throwing punches and the drama continues to build until the credits roll at the very end. Showing a situation, in this case, World War II and the reeducation of homosexuals (not a subject wildly discussed in history books or at dinner parties), from the ground level and with the aid of a central few characters is never an easy task, but this movie manages to present a variety of realistic situations. In this type of a set up caring for the main characters is crucial, thus the portrayal of characters is doubly important. The actors pull of their task quite easily and the viewer truly connects with the characters and begins to care deeply for them. This movie is a remarkable achievement and it's a shame there aren't more screenplay and final products like this.DVD Review: A Film Fo All People
Summary: 5 Stars
I just viewed this film for the first time...July 2009. What a shock to see Paris under occupation and....I am old enough to remember! (I'm almost 81)it was exactly what Paris looked, felt, and acted like during those years. This from my parents and close family living in France.
It's about time the Homosexuals of France and Germany have been remembered!
They were part of the Holocaust..
I got a "Double Whammy" being raised in the Jewish faith and being Gay also.
DVD Review: Compelling account of trials and tribulations during WW II in France
Summary: 5 Stars
"A Love to Hide" may focus on the persecution against homosexuals in WW II France, but it's also more than that - it's about anti-Semitism, collaborators, sibling rivalry,guilt and love in its myriad forms.
This French-language movie begins with a young Jewish girl, Sara Morgenstern who is the only survivor after her family is massacred by collaborators in Paris. She goes to the only person she knows, her childhood sweetheart Jean Lavandier whose family runs a laundry business. Jean takes her to Phillipe, where Phillipe reluctantly agrees to put Sara up. Unknown to Sara, Phillipe and Jean are lovers and this proves to be an awkward living arrangement. Sara is given a fake ID and works in Jean's family laundry under the assumed Aryan identity as Yvonne. In the meantime, Jacques, Jean's brother, a thief is serving time in prison. When he is released, he meets and falls for Yvonne [Sara] and is jealous at his brother's closeness with her, but is later mortified to learn Jean's true sexual inclination. An impulsive act puts Jean's life in jeopardy as he is arrested, leaving his family in turmoil and affecting everyone's lives.
The time period for this movie is from WW II, 1942 till liberation and also to the present day. There are many themes portrayed in this movie, but the most important is the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazi regime. One of the main characters in the story gets carted off to concentration camps, Flossenburg and later Dachau, in an attempt to "re-educate". Viewers will get a brutal picture of the treatment of the prisoners with the pink triangles, i.e. homosexuals during this period. They were loathed by the Nazis and toyed with in the most inhuman manner - there are graphic depictions of torture in this movie which are credibly portrayed as historical facts will attest.
Besides the persecution of homosexuals, there are other themes which are also well-portrayed - the sibling rivalry between Jean and Jacques resulting in tragic consequences, the unrequited love that Sara harbors for Jean and which Jacques harbors for Sara, the portrayal of anti-Semitism within the general populace of France as evidence by Jean's father and other civilians, and the wanton acts of collaboration carried out by a number of French civilians during the Nazi occupation, even the French gendarmes who help in the deportation of the Jews and other "undesirables" to the camps.
"A Love to Hide" is a truly compelling portrayal of the upheavals in France during WW II and will appeal to all those interested in WW II history, the Holcoaust and especially of the persecution of homosexuals during this period. Another interesting movie dealing with this topic is "Bent" starring Clive Owen.
DVD Review: An Important History Lesson
Summary: 5 Stars
We sometimes forget that in addition to what the Nazis did to Jews in the Holocaust, that they also rounded up other "undesirables" including homosexual men. There are different figures as to how many homosexuals were involved but they apparently numbered in the thousands. They were often ridiculed by the other prisoners and singled out by the guards for harsher treatment. And what is not known by a lot of people is that when the Allied Forces freed the prisoners from the concentration camps, many homosexuals were put back into prisons. Not a pretty picture. Christian Faure's fine film A LOVE TO HIDE holds a mirror to the horrors inflicted on homosexuals by Hitler's army. The movie begins in Nazi occupied Paris in 1942. Jene (Jeremine Renier) has a secret lover Philippe (Bruno Todeschini) that his family does not know about, hence the title A LOVE TO HIDE. Jene and Philippe befriend and hide a Jewish friend of Jene's Sarah (Louise Monot), who is the only member of her family not killed by the Nazis.
Faure captures both the fears of ordinary French citizens as well as Jews and homosexuals and the utter horror of what Hitler accomplished during this awful time in history. The three major actors give tremendous performances as to those with lesser roles including Jene's brother Max, who betrays his own brother and is capable of committing great wrongs but also of much guilt and sorrow, in word, a most complex character. The plot never drags, from the beginning frames where Sarah is clawing her way onto the street, having escaped the Nazis to Jene's fate--Renier is really quite wonderful-- that will break your heart to the beautiful ending. The movie is reminiscent of the play-- that became a movie-- BENT that also looks at the Nazi treatment of homosexuals. Richard Plant's THE PINK TRIANGLE is a well-written nonfiction account on the same subject.
Any film about the era of Hitler is always instructive, reminding us that we should neither forget what happened nor become complacent in our present circumstances. After all 1942 was only 66 years ago and Germany before Hitler was most progressive in its attitude toward homosexuals.
A film not to be missed.
Description of A Love to Hide
Two young gay lovers hide a Jewish woman in Nazi occupied Paris 1942 in this superb drama.System Requirements:Run Time: 103 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA UPC:?667443571148 Manufacturer No:?WOL4337DGeneral DVDs
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