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Suite française

by Saul Dibb

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Suite française

Book · 2004

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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.

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Suite française

It is based on the second part of Irène Némirovsky's 2004 novel of the same name. The film stars Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sam Riley, Ruth Wilson, Lambert Wilson and Margot Robbie. It concerns a romance between a French villager and a German soldier during the early years of the German occupation of France during World War II. Suite Française was filmed on location in France and Belgium. It was released theatrically in the UK on 13 March 2015 and premiered in the US through Lifetime cable network on 22 May 2017. The film was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition.

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