This Land Is Mine
Jean Renoir's heartfelt plea for humane values, made during WW2.
In a Hollywood studio, the exiled Renoir created an occupied country clearly intended to bring to mind his native France, the setting for a story about a shy village teacher (a very affecting Charles Laughton) arrested by the Nazis and forced to choose between collaboration and resistance. A heartfelt plea for humane values made when European civilisation was threatened by unthinkable barbarism.
| Director | Jean Renoir |
| Cast | Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak |
| Country | USA |
| Year | 1943 |
| Running time | 103min |
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