WOMEN AT WAR
NEW FRENCH TV SERIES
The French were relatively active last year in the historical genre, with Marie Antoinette and Diane de Poitiers and some other costume dramas, and they
are launching 2023 with WOMEN AT WAR (Les Combattantes) as the first series of that genre coming to us this year from France. The eight part historical drama actually already aired in France and the French speaking countries last Autumn, but the audience around the world will be able to watch it from January 19th, which is next Thursday, when it starts streaming over at Netflix! Tcheky Karyo, Tom Leeb, Yannick Choirat, Vincent Rottiers also star in the series beside the female leads mentioned below who play four women during World War I: a nun, a feminist nurse, a prostitute, and a widow turned factory boss. As usual Netflix did not deem it fit to issue posters or a trailer for a foreign series, but I found you one with English subtitles below:
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| The series hits Netflix next week |
STORY IS SET IN SEPTEMBER 1914
For several weeks, the fighting has been raging. In a small village in the east of France, a few kilometers from the German zone, four women find themselves thrown into the heart of the horror: Marguerite (Audrey![]()
Fleurot), a Parisian prostitute as mysterious as she is flamboyant who is suspected of being a spy ; Caroline (Sofia Essaïdi), wife of Victor Dewitt, owner of a car factory, went to the front. She sees herself propelled to the head![]()
of the family business, a colossal and unprecedented challenge for a woman at the beginning of the century; Agnès (Julie De Bona), mother superior of a convent requisitioned and transformed into a military hospital. Overwhelmed ![]()
by the influx of wounded soldiers, Agnès is more tormented and questions her life choices; and Suzanne (Camille Lou), a young feminist nurse on the run since an abortion that went wrong... All their destinies intersect as German ![]()
troops advance, men leave for the front lines, and they are forced to grapple with the devastating consequences of war at home.
For several weeks, the fighting has been raging. In a small village in the east of France, a few kilometers from the German zone, four women find themselves thrown into the heart of the horror: Marguerite (Audrey
Fleurot), a Parisian prostitute as mysterious as she is flamboyant who is suspected of being a spy ; Caroline (Sofia Essaïdi), wife of Victor Dewitt, owner of a car factory, went to the front. She sees herself propelled to the head
of the family business, a colossal and unprecedented challenge for a woman at the beginning of the century; Agnès (Julie De Bona), mother superior of a convent requisitioned and transformed into a military hospital. Overwhelmed 
by the influx of wounded soldiers, Agnès is more tormented and questions her life choices; and Suzanne (Camille Lou), a young feminist nurse on the run since an abortion that went wrong... All their destinies intersect as German 
troops advance, men leave for the front lines, and they are forced to grapple with the devastating consequences of war at home.