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The Savior (1971 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Le Saveur' is a 1971 French film directed by Michel Mardore, adapted from his own novel, and starring Horst Buchholz and Muriel Catala. Set in occupied France in 1943 Buchholz plays a supposed wounded English airman, Claude, and Catala plays the girl Nannette who falls for him. The supposed airman is soon revealed to be a cruel Nazi officer.James L. Limbacher. 'Sexuality in World Cinema.' Volume 2. 1983, p. 1190: "SAVIOR, THE (1971) (C) A teenaged girl and a French resistance man have a love affair during World War II and when he returns years later, the girl shoots him because he had wiped out the resistance fighters in her town. Horst Buchholz is the man and Michel Mardore wrote and directed."
Production
Michel Mardore said he asked Muriel Catal to shave her pubes to accentuate her childlike appearance. "This should have sold the film in Japan, since the Japanese abhor pubic hair and only accept the female nude when the woman is
shaved..."
References
Category:1971 films
Category:French films
Category:World War II films
Category:1970s French films
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