Jean-Marc Roulot

October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German Army. In retaliation, Hitler demands the deaths of 150 Frenchmen, as ‘retribution’.

Three siblings, anticipating their father’s imminent death, reunite at their scenic Burgundy home, to preserve the vineyard that ties them together.

AUGUST 25TH, 1944. THE ALLIES ENTER PARIS. Shortly before dawn, Dietrich von Choltitz (Niels Arestrup - A Prophet), German military governor of Paris, prepares to execute Adolph Hitler's orders to blow up the French capital. Bridges and monuments are all rigged to explode. And yet, Paris is not destroyed.