Female Agents

Original title: Les Femmes de l'ombre

“In the shadow of war, heroines write history.”

Directed by Jean-Paul Salomé

May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.