History Film / LacombeLucien

* StockholmSyndrome: Happens with France, who develops real feelings for Lucien. Her feelings are still mixed, though. In one scene she's cavorting with Lucien in an attic, followed by noisy sex. In the next scene she's contemplating whether or not to hit him in the head with a rock.

* TeensAreMonsters: Lucien is 17 - years - old and a textbook remorseless psychopath.

* LesCollaborateurs: Lucien joins them at the worst time possible. June 1944.

Lucien Lacombe is a 17-year-old boy living in southwest UsefulNotes/{{France}} in June 1944, four years after the French surrender and just days after the Allied landing on the north coast. Lucien, a farmboy currently working as a janitor, approaches the local Resistance leader and asks to join. The leader, Lucien's old schoolteacher, rejects him on the grounds that he's too young (and probably also because he's obviously not serious). Lucien then betrays him to the Gestapo, purely out of spite. He then gets a job with the Milice (the Vichy France version of the Gestapo) instead. Lucien takes pleasure in the new power that his status as a Gestapo thug gives him. He gets a new suit for free from the local tailor, Mr. Horn, and takes an interest in Horn's pretty daughter, France--both of whom are Jews.

* YourCheatingHeart: Lucien's mother is carrying on an affair with a lodger at the farm. Lucien's father has been a POW since 1940.

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''Lacombe, Lucien'' is a 1974 French film directed by Creator/LouisMalle, who also co-wrote the screenplay with [[{{NobelPrizeInLiterature/UsefulNotes}} Nobel Prize]]-winning novelist Patrick Modiano.

''Lacombe, Lucien'' is a 1974 French film directed by Louis Malle, who also co-wrote the screenplay with [[{{NobelPrizeInLiterature/UsefulNotes}} Nobel Prize]]-winning novelist Patrick Modiano.

* LaResistance: They reject Lucien's application. Later a group of them raid Milice HQ and kill almost all of the collaborators Lucien has been working with.
* LesCollaborateurs: Lucien joins them at the worst time possible. June 1944.

* LesCollaborateurs: Lucien joins them.

''Lacombe, Lucien'' is a 1974 French film directed by Louis Malle. Lucien Lacombe is a 17-year-old boy living in southwest UsefulNotes/{{France}} in June 1944, four years after the French surrender and just days after the Allied landing on the north coast. Lucien, a farmboy currently working as a janitor, approaches the local Resistance leader and asks to join. The leader, Lucien's old schoolteacher, rejects him on the grounds that he's too young (and probably also because he's obviously not serious). Lucien then betrays him to the Gestapo, purely out of spite. He then gets a job with the Milice (the Vichy France version of the Gestapo) instead. Lucien takes pleasure in the new power that his status as a Gestapo thug gives him. He gets a new suit for free from the local tailor, Mr. Horn, and takes an interest in Horn's pretty daughter, France--both of whom are Jews.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Lucien is too dumb to figure this out, even when the maid at Milice HQ tells him this directly. Some of the Vichyites he falls in with are in denial, but others have figured it out. One man at the HQ nervously listens to Creator/TheBBC and asks if anyone can understand English. An aspiring actress that hangs out at HQ reveals that she and her boyfriend are trying to collect money to get away to UsefulNotes/{{Spain}}.

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* YourDaysAreNumbered: Lucien is too dumb to figure this out, even when the maid at Milice HQ tells him this directly. Some of the Vichyites he falls in with are in denial, but others have figured it out. One man at the HQ nervously listens to the BBC and asks if anyone can understand English. An aspiring actress that hangs out at HQ reveals that she and her boyfriend are trying to collect money to get away to Spain.

''Lacombe, Lucien'' is a 1974 French film directed by LouisMalle. Lucien Lacombe is a 17-year-old boy living in southwest UsefulNotes/{{France}} in June 1944, four years after the French surrender and just days after the Allied landing on the north coast. Lucien, a farmboy currently working as a janitor, approaches the local Resistance leader and asks to join. The leader, Lucien's old schoolteacher, rejects him on the grounds that he's too young (and probably also because he's obviously not serious). Lucien then betrays him to the Gestapo, purely out of spite. He then gets a job with the Milice (the Vichy France version of the Gestapo) instead. Lucien takes pleasure in the new power that his status as a Gestapo thug gives him. He gets a new suit for free from the local tailor, Mr. Horn, and takes an interest in Horn's pretty daughter, France--both of whom are Jews.

''Lacombe, Lucien'' is a 1974 film from France directed by Louis Malle. Lucien Lacombe is a 17-year-old boy living in southwest France in June 1944, four years after the French surrender and just days after the Allied landing on the north coast. Lucien, a farmboy currently working as a janitor, approaches the local Resistance leader and asks to join. The leader, Lucien's old schoolteacher, rejects him on the grounds that he's too young (and probably also because he's obviously not serious). Lucien then betrays him to the Gestapo, purely out of spite. He then gets a job with the Milice (the Vichy France version of the Gestapo) instead. Lucien takes pleasure in the new power that his status as a Gestapo thug gives him. He gets a new suit for free from the local tailor, Mr. Horn, and takes an interest in Horn's pretty daughter, France--both of whom are Jews.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Lucien is too dumb to figure this out, even when the maid at Milice HQ tells him this directly. Some of the Vichyites he falls in with are in denial, but others have figured it out. One man at the HQ nervously listens to the BBC and asks if anyone can understand English. An aspiring actress that hangs out at HQ reveals that she and her boyfriend are trying to collect money to get away to Spain.

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Lucien is too dumb to figure this out, and some of the Vichyites he falls in with are in denial, but others have figured it out. One man at the local Vichy HQ nervously listens to the BBC and asks if anyone can understand English. An aspiring actress that hangs out at HQ reveals that she and her boyfriend are trying to collect money to get away to Spain.

''Lacombe, Lucien'' is a 1974 film from France directed by Louis Malle. Lucien Lacombe is a 17-year-old boy living in southwest France in June 1944, four years after the French surrender and just days after the Allied landing on the north coast. Lucien, a farmboy currently working as a janitor, approaches the local Resistance leader and asks to join. The leader, Lucien's old schoolteacher, rejects him on the grounds that he's too young (and probably also because he's obviously not serious). Lucien then betrays him to the Gestapo, purely out of spite. He then gets a job with the Gestapo instead. Lucien takes pleasure in the new power that his status as a Gestapo thug gives him. He gets a new suit for free from the local tailor, Mr. Horn, and takes an interest in Horn's pretty daughter, France--both of whom are Jews.

* TheUnreveal / WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Mr. Horn? When the Gestapo comes to take the Horns away, he's nowhere to be seen.