A Love to Hide

2005 French film

7 March 2005 (2005-03-07) (France)

Running time

102 minutesCountryFranceLanguageFrench

A Love to Hide (French title: Un amour à taire) is a 2005 French film made for television, directed by Christian Faure.^[1] It is loosely based on the book Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel by Pierre Seel.

Plot summary

The action takes place in France during the Second World War.

A young Jewish girl, Sarah, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood friend Jean, a homosexual in a clandestine relationship with his lover Philippe.

They are safe for the moment, thanks to Jean's plan to pass her off as a Christian employee of his laundromat, under the name Yvonne. However, a bad decision made by Jean's troublesome brother Jacques causes Jean to be wrongly accused of being the lover of a German officer. Jean is then forced into a Nazi labor camp.

Cast

Jeremie Renier as Jean Lavandier
Charlotte de Turckheim as Marcelle Lavandier
Bruno Todeschini as Philippe
Michel Jonasz as Armand Lavandier
Louise Monot as Sarah Morgenstern
Nicolas Gob as Jacques Lavandier
Olivier Saladin as Breton
Yulian Vergov as Johann Von Berg

Production

A Love to Hide is the second film of director Christian Faure dealing with homosexuality. He had previously directed Just a Question of Love (2000), a made-for-television film chronicling a love story between two young men.

This is one of few films about the deportation of homosexuals during World War II. (Also see Bent.) A Love to Hide is loosely based on the book Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel by Pierre Seel published in 1994.