The Savior

Sep 1, 1971

1h 30m

★ 3.4

Overview

This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life is about to change forever.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Nadja Films

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Cast

Claude

Horst Buchholz

Nanette

Muriel Catalá

Nanette's mother

Hélène Vallier

Nanette's father

Roger Lumont

Flouret

Henri Vilbert

Nanette adult

Danièle Ajoret

Monnery

Michel Delahaye

Nanette's husband

Jean-Pierre Sentier

Henri

Frédéric Norbert

Son of Monnery

Yves Hugues

Son of Monnery

Jacques Serres

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