Joyeux Noël (English: Merry Christmas) is a 2005 film about the World War I Christmas truce of December 1914, depicted through the eyes of French, Scottish and German soldiers. It was written and directed by Christian Carion.
The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards. The film was one of Ian Richardson's last appearances before his death on February 9, 2007.
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Joyeux Noël (English: Merry Christmas) is a 2005 film about the World War I Christmas truce of December 1914, depicted through the eyes of French, Scottish and German soldiers. It was written and directed by Christian Carion.
The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards. The film was one of Ian Richardson's last appearances before his death on February 9, 2007.
This film is based on the true stories of the World War I Christmas ceasefires along the Western Front.
The story centers mainly upon six main characters: Gordon (a Scottish Lieutenant); Audebert (a French Lieutenant and reluctant son of a general); Horstmayer (a Jewish German Lieutenant); Palmer (a British priest working as a stretcher-bearer); and German tenor Nikolaus Sprink and his Danish lover Anna Sorensen (two famous opera stars).
The film begins with flashbacks of schoolboys being taught to recite messages that both praise their countries and breed hatred of their enemies. In Scotland...
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