So many battles were
fought on land, air, and sea during World War II. Many of the battle were learn
about in classes throughout our school years are the most pivotal and
important. Yet, there are battles that are not common knowledge and the only way
you will hear about them is if you dig deep and do a ton of research. These
battles were fought in secret by soldiers or local partisans many of whom were
women. They were spies undercover face to face with the enemy gathering
information. Allies had special organizations dedicated to reconnaissance work.
One such organization was the Special Operations Executive run by the British.
In the French movie Female
Agents, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) sends out a group of female
war agents on a reconnaissance mission.
A British geologist has been captured by the Germans as
he was collecting samples of the sand at Normandy. Colonel Maurice Buckmaster
of the SOE has been tasked with putting together a group to save the geologist
from the Germans. He asks French agent Pierre Desfontaines to gather a group to
help him. The plan also involves going after a German ranking officer Karl Heindrich.
For that part of the mission Pierre turns to his sister Louise who had been a
partisan in France before her husband was killed. He needs her to gather up
three other women including one who had been engaged to Heindrich before the
war. Louise and Pierre use blackmail and other unscrupulous methods to get the
women to join the mission.
The group is able to complete rescuing the geologist. The
other women were not told about the second part of their mission. Pierre refuses
to let the women they leave they have to go back into Paris to complete the
rest of the assignment. They have to practically go on a suicide mission to
kill Heindrich because he knows too much about the possible Normandy landings.
This mission starts off well but quickly goes wrong when
Pierre and one of the women are captured.
I really liked Female
Agents. I am endlessly fascinated by women’s roles during World War II. It is
one of my favorite historical topics to research. Stories dealing with spying
and going undercover are also something I really enjoy (I was a massive fan of
Alias back in the day, still am). It was fascinating for me to see how spying
and going undercover was done during WWII even if it was fictionalized. Female Agents was a really good story
about these women who were forced to top sacrifice their lives for France and
for the war. It is I watch Agent Carter, which is like a dream show for me, and
in the episode this past week the audience learned that Peggy had been
recruited by the SOE. I honestly thought the SOE was a Marvel thing I had no
clue it was an actual thing until I watch Female
Agents! I’m looking forward to researching the Special Operations Executive
to see what exactly they did during the war.
Female Agents
is an all-around excellent movie that I highly recommend watching especially if
you like movies about World War II. It is available to watch on Netflix.
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