Saturday, August 16, 2025

1939 - 1945: Forbidden Love | PURE WW2

It was in Paris that Raymonde met her great love, the German officer Josef during the Second World War. A defeated soldier in the French Army, a prisoner of the Reich in 1941, he charmed Gertrud, the pretty German worker in the sawmill where he worked. Yet he was risking death, Maurice. Elisabeth, an excellent mother of the Reich, dared the unthinkable. Cheating on her Aryan husband in Berlin … with a wife, who was also a resistant Jew.

This film is the chrono-thematic narration of 4 stories of illicit and emblematic love affairs of the Second World War by the survivors, their descendants, and the best experts. Stories as complex as humanity can produce. The story of shameful love affairs against a backdrop of war, Nazism and horrors. A universal document that questions the grey areas of our psyches and sheds new light on the worst conflict in history.

Title: 39-45: FORBIDDEN LOVE
Directed by: Claire Denavarre
Production : La Famiglia