Sabine Azéma

In this French romantic drama the eldest daughter of a well-digger returns home from Paris when the first shots of World War I are fired. When she falls pregnant to a fighter pilot from a wealthy family her father is torn between his sense of honour and love for his daughter and a rift between the two families develops.

A "quasi-theatrical contrivance" (The Guardian), based on Jean Anouilh's 1941 play Eurydice, from French filmmaking veteran (89 years old at the time of making this) Alain Resnais.