Le vieux fusil

Le vieux fusil (English title: The Old Gun or Vengeance One by One) is a 1975 French-West German war-drama movie directed by Robert Enrico, and starring Philippe Noiret, Romy Schneider and Jean Bouise. It takes place in Nazi German-occupied France during World War II. The movie is based on the Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944.

 Plot 
In August 1944, during World War II, Julien Dandieu, a doctor who lives in Montauban in southern France with his wife Clara and his daughter Florence, is worried about the approaching battles of the retreating German army, and the advancing Allied armies and the French Resistance. Julien asks his friend François to drive his wife and daughter to the remote village where he owns a château, to keep them safe from the battles. A week later, Julien leaves Montauban to meet them for the weekend. While he was away, the German army massacres all the inhabitants of the village. When Julien arrives, he finds that all the villagers have been put inside the church and shot dead. In the château, now occupied by the German troops, he finds his daughter shot dead and he witnesses the killing of his wife with a flamethrower. He decides to take revenge on the Nazis.

 Cast 
 Philippe Noiret as Julien Dandieu
 Romy Schneider as Clara Dandieu
 Jean Bouise as François
 Joachim Hansen as SS Officer
 Robert Hoffmann as SS Lieutenant
 Karl Michael Vogler as Dr. Müller
 Madeleine Ozeray as Julien's Mother
 Catherine Delaporte as Florence Dandieu

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Category:1975 war movies
Category:French drama movies
Category:German drama movies
Category:World War II movies
Category:French-language movies
Category:Movies set in France
Category:Movies set in castles
Category:Movies set in the 1940s
Category:Movies about massacres
Category:Movies about revenge