Against the Wind

7/12/2025

With his homeland under a Nazi yoke, displaced priest “Fr. Philip” (Robert Beatty) is part of a group of courageous men and women who are training to become underground fighters. With their target a records office, a small team are parachuted into a Brussels packed full of soldiers and so their perilous project begins. We know that they have an ally working within the army ranks but what they don’t know is that there is an enemy fifth columnist working within their own. Things soon come to an head when “Emile” (John Slater) is captured and so “Michelle” (Simone Signoret) and the out-of-his-depth “Duncan” (Gordon Jackson) have to come up with a rescue plan before the Gestapo close in. Though the latter elements of this story deliver the more predictable elements of jeopardy, it’s really the