In the North of France, at the end of December 1914, the French and Scots faced German troops led by Horstmayer. A few days before Christmas, the morale is at its lowest on both sides. Lieutenant Audebert was very worried about his wife, pregnant and bedridden in a city now occupied by the enemy. On New Year’s Eve, when the Scots start playing the bagpipes, Nikolaus Sprink, who was a tenor at the Berlin Opera, sings a Christmas song. The enemies will start to fraternize…
Title: Merry Christmas (EN) / Joyeux Noël (FR)
Country: France, Germany, UK, Belgium, Romania, Norway, Japan, USA
Languages: French, German, English
Director: Christian Carion
Writers: Christian Carion
Actors: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet…