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Bon Voyage (2003)

Bon Voyage poster
Original title
Bon voyage
Directed by
Jean-Paul Rappeneau
Genre
comedy drama, black comedy film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 54m
Rated
15+
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 97 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 1940 France, a famous actress flees Paris with a scientist who is smuggling a crucial shipment of heavy water to prevent it from falling into Nazi hands. A young writer gets caught up with them and a police inspector as they all try to get out of the country.

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What happens

Bon Voyage (English: "Have A Good Trip") is a 2003 French film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau, starring Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Virginie Ledoyen and Grégori Derangère. It is loosely inspired by Professor Lew Kowarski's smuggling of the world's only supplies of heavy water out of France following its occupation by the Nazis. It was a selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 76th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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