Charlotte Gray is a 2001 feature film directed by Gillian Armstrong, based on the novel of the same name by Sebastian Faulks. It is set in Vichy France, during World War II and stars Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon and Rupert Penry-Jones.
The story is based on the exploits of SOE's female agents that worked with the French resistance within occupied France (Charlotte Gray is a composite of operatives such as Pearl Cornioley, Nancy Wa...
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Charlotte Gray is a 2001 feature film directed by Gillian Armstrong, based on the novel of the same name by Sebastian Faulks. It is set in Vichy France, during World War II and stars Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon and Rupert Penry-Jones.
The story is based on the exploits of SOE's female agents that worked with the French resistance within occupied France (Charlotte Gray is a composite of operatives such as Pearl Cornioley, Nancy Wake, Odette Sansom and Violette Szabo).
In 1942, a young Scot, Charlotte Gray, travels to London to take a job as a medical receptionist for a Harley Street doctor. On the train she talks to a man who enters her compartment, he "interviews" her and gives her his card. Despite the war, social life in London is in full swing and the attractive, intelligent girl soon meets up with Flight Lieutenant Peter Gregory. Soon her meeting is interrupted by the man from the train, he urges her to call him. The temporary nature of life at the time is...
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