Line of Demarcation

In 1940, in the World War II, a river splits a French village and is the demarcation line between occupied France and free zone. The Nazis shoot anyone that tries to cross the line. When the crippled Count of Damville, Captain Pierre, returns home, he learns that his mansion was converted into a German Base and his wife, Countess Mary, is living in the hunting lodge. The British Mary supports the French Resistance while Pierre is conformed that France lost the war. When the British and an American parachuters land in the woods, Mary helps them to escape to Gibraltar. In the town, the poacher Cheti betrays a Jewish family that hired him to cross the river by a fortune to steal their suitcase with jewels, but the resistance member Urbain makes justice killing him. Meanwhile, two Gestapo agents arrive in town and demand to intensify the search of the parachuters. When they are discovered by the Garman troops, one of them is wounded with three bullets and captured. Doctor Jacques Lafaye, who is member of the Resistance, treats the man and plots a scheme for him to escape from the hospital. But the Gestapo agents are pressing him to know his whereabouts, saying that they will torture his wife, and the doctor commits suicide. They also arrest Countess Mary that is sent to a British prisoner camp. Meanwhile the French collaborator Loiseau, who works as interpreter to Major von Pritsch, is assigned to find the whereabouts of the allied spy. But the Resistance is plotting a daring scheme to make him cross the border with the priest and Urbain.