CHARLOTTE GRAY

Year: 2001
USA: Warner Bros
UK: FilmFour
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon, John Pierce Jones, John Benfield, Ron Cook, Lewis Crutch, Wolf Kahler, Anton Lesser, Helen McCrory, John Perkins, Mathew Plato, Erich Redman, Robert Shannon, Jack Shepherd
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Countries: Germany / UK / Australia
UK: 121 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for some war related violence, sensuality and brief strong language
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language
USA Release Date: 28 December 2001 (Limited Release)
UK Release Date: 22 February 2002
US Distributor
Synopsis

CHARLOTTE GRAY is an epic love story, adapted from Sebastian Faulk's best selling novel. Charlotte Gray (Cate Blanchett), a young Scottish woman, is a British Secret Service operative. When her boyfriend, a pilot, is reported missing in action, she sets about finding him. She is parachuted behind enemy lines into Nazi-occupied France during World War II. Only she knows she has a dual mission.

Officially, she has been recruited by the British Government on a special operation to liaise with the local resistance group in southern France, who are using guerrilla tactics against the occupying German army. Unofficially, she is searching for her lover, Peter, an English airman missing in action after his plane is shot down.

But her exploits with the French resistance bring her in contact with the enigmatic Julien Levade (Billy Crudup). As Charlotte becomes more deeply involved with the resistance fighters, led by Julien, she realises a far deeper romance is beginning and that her love of France and its people will change her life forever.

DVD EXTRAS

certificate 15
DVD extras (tbc):
Director's Commentary
THE REAL CHARLOTTE GRAYS Documentary
Interview with Gillian Armstrong
Theatrical Trailer