Female Agents

Year: 2008

Actors: Sophie Marceau, Moritz Bleibtreu, Volker Bruch, Vincent Rottiers

Duration: 148 min

Female Agents begins in May 1944 when French Resistance fighter Louise Desfontaines (Sophie Marceau) is recruited by British spy organisation the Special Operations Executive to put together an all-women squad to parachute into occupied France and rescue an injured British agent in a hospital. Things get messy when the SOE orders the team to next travel to Paris to assassinate high-ranking SS officer Colonel Heindrich (Moritz Bleibtreu), who's learned too much about the impending D-Day landings at Normandy.

Genre: Action   Drama   War