Charlotte Gray

Release date:December 17, 2001

Directed by:Gillian Armstrong

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Runtime:121 minutes

Charlotte Gray is a 2001 British–Australian–German drama romance thriller film directed by Gillian Armstrong, based on the novel of the same name by Sebastian Faulks. It is set in Vichy France, during World War II and stars Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon and Rupert... Penry-Jones. The story is based on the exploits of SOE's female agents that worked with the French resistance within occupied France . In 1942, a young Scot, Charlotte Gray, travels to London to take a job as a medical receptionist for a Harley Street doctor. On the train she talks to a man who enters her compartment, where he "interviews" her and gives her his card with the date, time and address of a book launch on the back. Despite the war, social life in London is in full swing and her friends convince her to go. While there she soon meets Flight Lieutenant Peter Gregory, but is interrupted by the man from the train, who urges her to meet some people. The temporary nature of life at the time is epitomized when she quickly loses her heart to Peter.
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