A very good World War II Resistance movie for you all this week. ‘Tomorrow We Live At Dawn We Die’ is the story of the daughter of the mayor of a French town who poses as a collaborator with the Nazis in order to fight against them and to assist Allied servicemen who had evaded capture to escape.

The movie was made in 1943 at a time when France was still firmly under Nazi occupation and was made, according to the credits, with the assistance of General De Gaulle’s Free French who were based in the United Kingdom at the time. The film shows the claustrophobia of occupation and the danger that those fighting against the Nazis in France faced from real collaborators who were quite happy to sell their own countrymen down the river in order to have an easier life or to protect family members.

It’s an exciting and quite pacey film which does hold the attention and is a movie that is a recent discovery for me and I’m very glad that I did discover it.

I have to say that it is very much a film that is ‘of its time’ but that should not put people off watching it, The movie appears to have been made both as a morale booster for Britons and to inform them just how onerous the Nazi occupation of France was and that there were French citizens who were fighting back.

I enjoyed this movie and I hope that you enjoy it too.