FEMALE AGENTS
aka LES FEMMES DE L'OMBRE

Year: 2008
UK: Revolver Entertainment
Cast: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Deborah François, Maya Sansa, Moritz Bleibtreu, Julien Boisselier, Vincent Rottiers, Volker Bruch, Robin Renucci, Xavier Beauvois, Colin David Reese, Jurgen Mash, Conrad Cecil
Director: Jean-Paul Salome
Country: France
Language: French (English subtitles)
UK: 117 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong violence and nudity
UK Release Date: 27 June 2008


Synopsis

FEMALE AGENTS is a thrilling wartime adventure by Jean-Paul Salome based on real events and people to construct a spy thriller set in the final months of one of the most terrible conflicts in human history.

It's May 1944, a five-woman commando unit parachutes into occupied France on a daring and dangerous mission to protect the secret of the D-Day Landings and eliminate Colonel Heindrich, the head of the German counter intelligence.

After the Liberation of France, General de Gaulle neglected the role played by these female agents, many of whom had given their lives for the cause, in order to highlight the heroes who had fought alongside him in the Free French Forces.

This film sets out to make amends for the injustice by turning the spotlight on the women who, in the shadows, had worked to defeat the Nazis.

FEMALE AGENTS is an action-packed tribute to the real-life espionage operatives whose exploits inspired the film.