The Gates of Fire (French: Les portes de feu) is a 1972 French war drama film directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert and starring Emmanuelle Riva, Dany Carrel, Annie Cordy and Juliette Mills.https://www.unifrance.org/film/1511/les-portes-de-feuDeacon & Fowler p.139 Location shooting took place in the Camargue in Southern France standing in for wartime Libya.
Synopsis In 1942 during the North African campaign of World War II, four Free French nurses are captured by a German patrol during Rommel's offensive following the First Battle of El Alamein. After a psychological trying time they are eventually able to turn the tables on their captors and bring them back to Allied lines.
Cast Emmanuelle Riva as La baronne Dany Carrel as Solange Annie Cordy as Andrée Juliette Mills as Lili Georges Aminel as Le docteur Jacques Brunet as Ludwig Rolph Spath as Hans Jacques Balutin as Soldat de garde Alexandre Grecq as Kurd Antoine Baud as Franz
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Bibliography Deacon, Deborah A. & Fowler, Stacy. Military Women in World Cinema: A 20th Century History and Filmography. McFarland, 2023. Rège, Philippe. Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Volume 1. Scarecrow Press, 2009.
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