August, 1944. Just as the war is beginning to go wrong for the Germans,
Yvon succeeds in preventing his friend Stella, a Jew, from being
deported. However, to do this, he must ally himself with the
Gestapo and, in particular, the infamous collaborator Caron.
Stella is surprised both at being set free and the comfort that Yvon
now enjoys, but her friend refuses to answer her questions. It
isn't until she is visited by a colleague of Yvon that she discovers
the truth and realises the dangerous game her friend has got himself
into...
A wave of fresh talent in the late 1950s, early 1960s brought about a dramatic renaissance in French cinema, placing the auteur at the core of France's 7th art.
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.