In school in the United States, she had studied she studied French, Italian, and German, and she continued her studies in France, Germany, and Austria, before being appointed a Consular Service clerk at the American Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, and then Venice and Estonia.ĭuring her time in Europe, Hall had a hunting accident, which resulted in the amputation of her lower left leg. A bright, inquisitive child and student, she went on to attend Radcliffe College, Barnard College, and George Washington University, before finishing her schooling in Europe. Hall was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1906. Though her name may not sound familiar to most people, Hall is regarded as America’s greatest female spy. Everyone loves a dramatic tale of espionage and danger! And there is one spy whose story stands out from all the others: Virginia Hall. A lot of those incredible World War II stories involve spies. Even after the war ended, it was dangerous to release the names of spies who may still be involved in operations, or potentially make people targets for retaliation.īut now that it is safe to declassify information about the war, we are learning of some incredible tales of bravery and dazzling heroics at long last. Part of the reason is because of the internet and how readily people can share information, and part of the reason is because classified documents are finally being made public after all these years. The film won the Radio-Canada Audience Award at the 2010 edition of the Cinéfranco film festival.It has been 75 years since World War II ended, but there are still new incredible stories being uncovered all the time. While the film received general positive reviews from French critics, certain resistance veterans from the time have criticised it saying it portrayed them as "coerced into joining the resistance", not joining through patriotism. Ida Techer as La surveillante couloir.Serge Boutleroff as Concierge hôtel Régent (as Serge Onteniente).Jan Oliver Schroeder as Garde entrée hôpital.Olivier Beraud-Bedouin as Le milicien (as Olivier Beraud).Stefan Kollmuss as Officier Wehrmacht St Germain.Philippe Soutan as Poinçonneur Baratier.Sarah Tullamore as Nurse hôpital anglais.Olivier De Wispelaere as Feld gendarme St Lazare.Natasha Cashman as Secrétaire Buckmaster.Ashley Wanninger as Soldat radio cour hôpital.Rainer Sievert as Lieutenant hôpital Normandie.Edward Hamilton-Clark as Officier anglais 2.Jurgen Mash as Generalfeldmarshall Gerd von Rundstedt.Colin David Reese as Colonel Maurice Buckmaster.Volker Bruch as SS-Obersturmführer Becker.Julien Boisselier as Pierre Desfontaines.Moritz Bleibtreu as SS-Standartenführer Karl Heindrich.He knows too much about the planned landings. They are obliged to return to Paris, where the SOE gives them a new, almost suicidal, objective: to eliminate Colonel Heindrich, one of the key figures of Nazi counter-espionage. The mission gets under way well, but quickly becomes complicated. After their arrival in Normandy, they are joined by Maria Luzzato ( Maya Sansa), an Italian Jew and radio operator. Finally she selects Jeanne Faussier ( Julie Depardieu), a prostitute capable of killing in cold blood. Then she brings in Gaëlle Lemenech ( Déborah François), a chemist and explosives expert. She first employs Suzy Desprez ( Marie Gillain), a cabaret dancer who excels in the art of seducing men. When it comes to recruitment, anything goes: lies, blackmail, bribery (through the offer of remission of a death sentence) and calls to carry out patriotic duty. Louise must first create a commando group of women especially chosen for the needs of the operation. The agent has not yet revealed anything but time is pressing. Louise is given an urgent first mission: to extricate a British agent (Conrad Cecil) who has fallen into German hands while preparing the invasion of Normandy. She is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the secret spy and sabotage service initiated by Winston Churchill. In May 1944 Louise Desfontaines (Sophie Marceau), a member of the French Resistance, flees to Spain after her husband is killed, where she is captured and later expatriated to London. Jean-Paul Salomé, the director, drew inspiration from an obituary in The Times newspaper of Lise de Baissac (Lise Villameur), from Mauritius (then a British colony), one of the heroines of the SOE, named "Louise Desfontaines" in the film and played by Sophie Marceau. Written by Salomé and Laurent Vachaud, the film is about female resistance fighters in the Second World War. Female Agents ( French: Les Femmes de l'ombre) is a 2008 French historical drama film directed by Jean-Paul Salomé and starring Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Déborah François, and Moritz Bleibtreu.
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