Saul Dibb's film adapts the second part of Irène Némirovsky's unfinished novel, the love between a French woman and a German officer billeted in her mother-in-law's house during the occupation.
Book· 2004· Historical
Suite française
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- World War II
- Fall of France
Irène Némirovsky wrote the novel as the events happened, the exodus from Paris in June 1940 and the German occupation of a French village, before her deportation to Auschwitz in 1942; the manuscript was published sixty years later.