Un homme de trop (1967) - Original French Version with English Subtitles

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This date (falls on May 8, 2025) and marks the unconditional surrender of Germany to the Allied forces, effectively ending World War II in Europe. Let’s remember the men and women who fought and gave their lives for our freedom.

Un homme de trop

directed by  Costa-Gavras (1967)• 1h50• Fiction• Historique, Film de patrimoine, Adaptation littéraire

In 1943, through a risky operation, a group of resistance fighters successfully freed twelve death row inmates from their prison. However, once they reached safety, it turned out that among the escapees was one man too many. With the Germans on their trail, the leaders of the resistance struggled to find a way to free this unknown man... Based on the novel by Jean-Pierre Chabrol.

With an amazing cast of French Actors, Claude Brasseur, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jacques Perrin, Maurice Garrel, Michel Piccoli, François Perrier, Gérard Blain, Charles Vanel, Bruno Cremer. 

Costa-Gavras core themes, history and the concept of justice, are confronted in Un homme de trop, which marks the beginning of the filmmaker’s first cycle of political cinema – ‘made in France’. This chapter examines the layered representation of this troubled period in France’s history in terms of aesthetic style and generic type. The chapter also examines the relationship of the adaptation of the novels to France’s political culture over the thirty-year period that separates the events themselves from their representation on screen. History has different tonalities of ‘truth’: lived experience versus journalistic investigation; documented truth in a period of rebuilding France as a nation, versus documentary truth revealed within a period of a nation’s self-reflexivity.

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Day: Monday, May  9th, 2025
Time: 6.30pm -8.30 pm
Duration: 2 hours
Location:  Alliance Francaise, 1420 Walnut St, Suite 700, Philadelphia, PA 19102

Language: French, English subtitles

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