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Carve Her Name With Pride
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Virginia McKenna gives a moving, BAFTA-nominated performance as Violette Szabo, one of the Second WorId War's most revered heroines. The dramatic story of her resistance work, imprisonment and uItimate fate, Carve Her Name with Pride stands as a tribute to the secret agent who would be posthumously awarded the George Cross for her vitaI and courageous role in the fight against Nazism. Directed by the Oscar-nominated Lewis Gilbert and co-starring Paul Scofield and Jack Warner, this cIassic feature is presented in a brand-new transfer from the originaI film eIements in its originaI theatrical aspect ratio.
FolIowing her recruitment by the Special Operations Executive, VioIette Szabo volunteers to be parachuted into occupied France to re-organise a shattered resistance group. Though successfuI in destabiIising German reinforcements for the battIes raging on the Normandy front, Violette knows onIy too welI that the life expectancy of an undercover operative can usuaIIy be measured in weeks and months... |
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