Joyeux Noel

Joyeux Noel (2005)

Joyeux Noël

Without an enemy there can be no war.

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…

Date of release
2005-11-09
TMDB
7.3 / 10 (961)
Runtime
1h 56m
Genres
Drama, War, Romance, History
Director
Christian Carion

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 3

Joyeux Noël is a 2005 war drama film based on the Christmas truce of December 1914, depicted through the eyes of French, British, and German soldiers. It was written and directed by Christian Carion, and screened out of competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

Development and production

Carion's youth was spent in his parents' farm fields in Northern France, where he was constantly reminded of World War I as the family often found dangerous unexploded shells left over from the conflicts in the fields. He had also heard of the stories in which French soldiers would leave their trenches at night to meet with their wives in the surrounding German-occupied towns and return to fight the next morning.

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