We Were One Man

6/5/2023

A young peasant farmer rescues a wounded German soldier towards the end of WWII in rural France. At first they are mutually suspicious of each other, but slowly a bond starts to grow between them and.... Serge Avedikian is convincing as "Guy" - the rather eccentric, shall we say, young Frenchman whom the locals leave to his farm as a bit of a simpleton; Piotr Stanislas as his German friend "Rolf", however, is much less so and therein lies the problem with this story - it just doesn't go anywhere. It doesn't need end to end shagging - indeed there is really only one sexual scene in the performances (asides from Guy's assignations with the local hooker), but the development of their relationship seems to grow in disjointed fits and starts; there is nothing consistent in the way the story pro

8/30/2026

This was an older movie from 1979, but set in 1943. The story was a guy living alone in the French country side finds a wounded German soldier and nurses him back to health. What the soldier didn't know was that the guy was a homicidal mental patient who escaped from an institution. So yeah, no happy ending there.