One Against the Wind (1991)
3.6 of 5 from 46 ratings
1h 36min
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- Synopsis:
This award-winning TV production tells the true story of a heroic woman's underground operation to spirit Allied soldiers out of Nazi-occupied France. Her name is Mary Lindell, a British-born Red Cross nurse living in France with her two teenage children, Maurice and Barbé, by Lindell's marriage to Count de Melville. The story begins in Paris in 1940 when a downed British flier, Maj. James Legatt (Sam Neill), stumbles to a table at a sidewalk cafe. Dressed in a shin-to-shoulder overcoat and dizzy with fatigue, he plops into a chair. At a table nearby, Lindell (Judy Davis) notices his boots - British issue and a dead giveaway. When German soldiers approach the flier, Lindell walks to his table and slaps him smartly, pretending he is her drunken husband. The ruse works. Lindell then takes Legatt to her home in a taxi and nurses him to health. During their time together, they fall in love - chastely, without overtly disclosing their affection for each other. Using her feminine wiles and forceful personality to bamboozle SS hounds, she effects his escape back to England, then dedicates herself to rescuing other allies. All goes well until a flier botches his escape. An investigation and trial send Lindell to prison for nine months, which she barely survives. After her release, her son and daughter hide her and restore her to health, and Lindell goes back to work smuggling Allies across the border - this time with the aid of a priest (Denholm Elliot) and Maj. Legatt, who tracks her activities from his headquarters in England. She eventually ends up in the Ravensbrück concentration camp north of Berlin (1991). - Actors:
- Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Anthony Higgins, Christien Anholt, Kate Beckinsale, Denholm Elliott, Frank Middlemass, David Ryall, Peter Cellier, Mark Wing-Davey, Stevan Rimkus, Tom Hodgkins, Michael Crossman, John Savident, Terence Taplin, Mikush Alexander, Paul Haigh, Stefan Gryff, Wolf Kahler, Benedick Blythe
- Directors:
- Larry Elikann
- Writers:
- Chris Bryant
- Genres:
- Drama
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