Movies by Ginette Leclerc

En grandes pompes

En grandes pompes

The Robinards form a family divided into two irreconcilable clans: the Léonce branch and the Sébastien branch. That day, the village of Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon was abuzz with activity: at the cemetery, the grandfather, Sébastien Robinard, was buried. At the same time, Marcel Robinard, a descendant of Léonce, was getting married in church. Not to mention a bicycle race and a parade. All these events collide.

Le Gang des pianos à bretelles

Le Gang des pianos à bretelles

An accordionist playing in disreputable halls is mistaken for a gangster by a special envoy from the American crime syndicate in charge of investigating the French milieu. The American will prepare a hold-up with a gang of women specialized in scamming tourists. But the accordionist will make the hold-up fail and all the criminals will end up behind bars.

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation

Love & Sex under Nazi Occupation questions the burning mystery of intimate heterosexual and homosexual relations in times of war... and shows how being close to death reinforces the yearning for passion, for pleasure, for transgression, for desire as a last burst of freedom, as an ultimate call to life. Nearly two hundred thousands children are thought to be born of the union of French women with German soldiers. Women weren't the Germans' only conquests; indeed, occupied Paris swarms with all kinds of homosexuals—from Genet to Cocteau—who t...