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Een vrouw tussen hond en wolf (1979)

111 min · Drama

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Directors

André Delvaux

Cast

Marie-Christine Barrault, Rutger Hauer, Roger Van Hool, Senne Rouffaer

During the Second World War, a woman is caught between a resistance fighter she loves and her husband fighting on the Eastern Front.

The story

In 1940, Lieve, a girl from Antwerp, falls in love with a French-speaking resistance fighter. Her Flemish nationalist husband is away fighting as a volunteer on the Eastern Front. As the war years unfold, Lieve finds herself torn between her love for the resistance fighter and her husband, caught between two men whose lives are shaped by the conflict.

Full plot (contains spoilers)

During the Second World War, Lieve, a girl from Antwerp, falls in love with a French-speaking resistance fighter while her Flemish nationalist husband fights as a volunteer on the Eastern Front. The story begins in 1940 and ends twelve years later. Lieve is still torn between her love for two men, but realizes that she is important to neither of them. So she leaves them both.

Genres

Drama

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