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A Love to Hide
A Love to Hide (French title: Un amour à taire) is a 2005 French film made for television, directed by Christian Faure.[1] It is loosely based on the book Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel by Pierre Seel. Plot summaryThe action takes place in France during the Second World War. A young Jewish girl, Sarah, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood friend Jean, a homosexual in a clandestine relationship with his lover Philippe. They are safe for the moment, thanks to Jean's plan to pass her off as a Christian employee of his laundromat, under the name Yvonne. However, a bad decision made by Jean's troublesome brother Jacques causes Jean to be wrongly accused of being the lover of a German officer. Jean is then forced into a Nazi labor camp. Cast
ProductionA Love to Hide is the second film of director Christian Faure dealing with homosexuality. He had previously directed Just a Question of Love (2000), a made-for-television film chronicling a love story between two young men. This is one of few films about the deportation of homosexuals during World War II. (Also see Bent.) A Love to Hide is loosely based on the book Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel by Pierre Seel published in 1994. ReceptionThe Variety Magazine felt the film was sometimes "over-rigged in script and direction" but nonetheless gave a positive review.[1] References
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