When this movie was released in 1974, it created a huge scandal and strong controversies… One of Malle’s finest! Searing, powerful film of innocence lost and how power corrupts, is one of the great films in French cinema!
A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates her employer, works for the German police. He then meets France Horn, the daughter of a rich jewish tailor.