Souvenir (1987)

Directed by

Geoffrey Reeve

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, France

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former German soldier, now living as an American, goes back to a French village where Nazi atrocities occurred. He wants to confront guilt from his past, including the murder of his French lover during the war.

poignantreflectivesomberslow-pacedhistoricalguilt-riddenbittersweetrestrained

What happens

Souvenir is a 1988 British drama film directed by Geoffrey Reeve and starring Christopher Plummer, Catherine Hicks and Michael Lonsdale. It was based on the novel The Pork Butcher by David Hughes. Forty years after the Second World War, an ex-German soldier returns as an American to a French village in which atrocities were committed by the Nazis, during which his then French lover was murdered. The film, like the book, is an attempt to attribute and assuage patent and discrete levels of guilt. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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