World War II · Film · 1997
Lucie Aubrac
When her husband is captured by Klaus Barbie's Gestapo in Lyon, a pregnant Resistance fighter uses nerve, lies and a commando raid to get him back.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 3 places.
Stop 1: Caluire-et-Cuire, near Lyon
The Gestapo bursts into a secret meeting of Resistance leaders, and Raymond is taken along with the man known as Max.
Stop 2: Montluc prison, Lyon
Key location
While Raymond waits under a death sentence, Lucie bluffs her way into Gestapo offices and plans an ambush on the truck carrying him.
Stop 3: London
After months in hiding, the couple is flown out of France to join the Free French in London.
What really happened
Lucie and Raymond Aubrac were founders of the Libération-Sud movement in Lyon. On 21 June 1943 Raymond was arrested with Jean Moulin, de Gaulle's representative, at a secret meeting in a doctor's house in Caluire; Moulin died after torture by Klaus Barbie's Gestapo, and the question of who betrayed the meeting was never settled.
Lucie, who was pregnant, pretended to be Raymond's fiancée to gain access to German officers and on 21 October 1943 led an armed attack on a prison truck in Lyon that freed him and other prisoners. The family reached London in February 1944. The film follows her 1984 memoir; in 1997 some historians questioned parts of the couple's account, which remains debated.
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Full details
- Original title
- Lucie Aubrac
- Directed by
- Claude Berri
- Countries
- France
- Languages
- French, German
- Released
- 1997
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- Western Europe
- Themes
- Resistance
- Biography
- True story
