Charlotte Gray (2001)
The British drama film, Charlotte Gray (2001), directed by Gillian Armstrong, is based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Sebastian Faulks. In 1942, a young Scot, Charlotte Gray, travels to London to work in a surgery. During her train ride, she meets Richard Cannerley who is intrigued by her fluency in French and gives her his business card for a book launch party. At the party, Cannerley introduces Charlotte to his acquaintances and asks her to keep in touch. Later on, she enters into a brief romance with Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Peter Gregory whom she met at the party. Through Cannerley, Charlotte gets recruited into the SOE and joins the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry as a Driver after completing rigorous training. While serving, she learns that Gregory’s plane has gone missing over occupied France. Driven by her desire to find him, Charlotte signs up for SOE operations in France.
On her initial assignment to France, Charlotte’s task is to deliver radio vacuum tubes. She descends by parachute and rendezvouses with her contact at a café; however, authorities swiftly apprehend the contact in front of her. In light of this complication, Julien, who serves as Charlotte’s primary point of contact within the French Resistance, reassigns her to serve as a housekeeper for his father, Levade. Levade has taken in two young French Jewish boys, André and Jacob, following the deportation of their parents to a German concentration camp in occupied Poland. As part of her duties within the Resistance, Charlotte joins in a mission to sabotage an enemy train transporting Nazi weapons and troops. Unfortunately, the Nazis retaliate by sending their own forces and armored vehicles to suppress the Resistance in the area.
Date of download: 2015-11-11T17:22:34+00:00
Cast:  Cate BlanchettCharlotte Gray  James FleetRichard Cannerly  Abigail CruttendenDaisy  Rupert Penry-JonesPeter Gregory  Billy CrudupJulien Levade  Michael GambonLevade  Anton LesserRenech  Ron CookMirabel  Helen McCroryFrancoise |
The British drama film, Charlotte Gray (2001), directed by Gillian Armstrong, is based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Sebastian Faulks. In 1942, a young Scot, Charlotte Gray, travels to London to work in a surgery. During her train ride, she meets Richard Cannerley who is intrigued by her fluency in French and gives her his business card for a book launch party. At the party, Cannerley introduces Charlotte to his acquaintances and asks her to keep in touch. Later on, she enters into a brief romance with Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant Peter Gregory whom she met at the party. Through Cannerley, Charlotte gets recruited into the SOE and joins the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry as a Driver after completing rigorous training. While serving, she learns that Gregory’s plane has gone missing over occupied France. Driven by her desire to find him, Charlotte signs up for SOE operations in France.
On her initial assignment to France, Charlotte’s task is to deliver radio vacuum tubes. She descends by parachute and rendezvouses with her contact at a café; however, authorities swiftly apprehend the contact in front of her. In light of this complication, Julien, who serves as Charlotte’s primary point of contact within the French Resistance, reassigns her to serve as a housekeeper for his father, Levade. Levade has taken in two young French Jewish boys, André and Jacob, following the deportation of their parents to a German concentration camp in occupied Poland. As part of her duties within the Resistance, Charlotte joins in a mission to sabotage an enemy train transporting Nazi weapons and troops. Unfortunately, the Nazis retaliate by sending their own forces and armored vehicles to suppress the Resistance in the area.
