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The Comrades (Les camarades, 2007) Director: Francois Luciani It's June 1945. The Second World War has ended and many French nationals like Marion (Laure Marsac) return from concentration camps in Germany. Marion should consider herself lucky, since many never returned. Hoping to make it up for the time lost, she reconnects with her best friend Pierre (Olivier Sitruk) at a wedding. The bridegroom happens to be permanent communist party member. Scarred by her wartime suffering torture and treachery, Marion is doubtful about re-embracing the Communist ideals. Before she takes any important steps, she needs to find herself again, renew her ideals, her faith and the will to live. Twenty-some years in the lives of these "comrades" -between 1944 and the May 1968 riots tell a composite story or history lesson of post WWII French politics focusing on the left-wing movements. As individual inter-personal alliances and divisions common in those times occur, the broader picture of compromises, agreements and internal divisions of the left-wing in France unfolds in this three part miniseries.
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