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War in the Highlands (1999)

War in the Highlands poster
Original title
La guerre dans le Haut Pays
Directed by
Francis Reusser
Genre
drama film, comedy drama
Country
France, Switzerland, Belgium
Runtime
1h 45m
Rated
15
Rating
4.5 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Swiss villagers face hardship and conflict during the Napoleonic era. A young woman navigates loyalty and survival in a remote mountain community. The film follows her personal struggles amid the pressures of war.

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What happens

War in the Highlands (French: La Guerre dans le Haut Pays) is a 1998 war drama film written and directed by Francis Reusser and starring Marion Cotillard. The film is a co-production between Switzerland, France and Belgium and it is based on the 1915 novel La Guerre dans le Haut-Pays by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, concerning Switzerland in the Napoleonic era. The film was released theatrically in Switzerland on 7 October 1998, and in France on 5 May 1999. The film competed for the Golden Bear at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival. It was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, but it was not nominated. Cotillard won the Best Actress award at the 1999 Autrans Mountain Film Festival for her performance. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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