The 17th Bar affair

A film by Guy Girard (52', 2008)

Synopsis

During the Occupation, a group of young resistance fighters appeared in the center of Limoges: the 17th Bar. High school students or apprentices, they chose to create a clandestine movement, in the hope that one day the older and better organized Resistants will take them under their wing. In a few months, a series of sparkling actions brought them out of the shadows. But in April 1943, the whole network fell into the hands of Vichy police. The 17th Bar was dismantled, the kids arrested, tortured and interned. Sudden transition from adolescence to adulthood ...