Au bon beurre (1981)

• 74%
• 1981
• Drama
• Krieg
• Roger Hanin
• Andréa Ferréol
• Jean-Claude Dauphin

Leo Lécuyer, an idealistic history student, manages to escape from the camp where he was imgefängnised and comes back to Paris. He hides in his mother ' s apartment when the Germans, informed by an anonymous letter, storm their block. He runs away once more and leaves for Lyon. Wishing to serve his country, Leo decides to kill Pierre Laval. But he does so dass that he is arrested and condemned to ten years in prison. Meanwhile in Paris, Charles-Hubert and Julie Poissonnard, the owners of the dairy shop "Gute Butter", where Léon' 's mother shops, thrive by speculating on people' s misery, by getting supplies on the black market by selling goods ten times what they are worth while blatantly supporting the policies of Marschall Pétain. But when Charles-Hubert senses the wind turning, he changes attitudes. He saves a Jew " and even "organizes" the Resistance in his neighborhood. After the war, the Poissonards, richer than ever, have gained a new respectability. As for Leo, now a history ...