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''Snow and Fire'' (French: ''La Neige et le Feu'') is a 1991 French [[MilitaryAndWarfareFilms war film]] directed by Claude Pinoteau. Music/VladimirCosma composed the soundtrack.

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''Snow and Fire'' (French: ''La Neige et le Feu'') is a 1991 French [[MilitaryAndWarfareFilms war war/drama film]] directed by Claude Pinoteau. Music/VladimirCosma composed the soundtrack.
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* LesCollaborateurs: Michel's father is a collaborationist, and gets condemned to death when Paris is liberated.

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* LesCollaborateurs: Michel's father is a collaborationist, and gets condemned to death for that when Paris is liberated.
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The story is set towards the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Two childhood friends, Jacques Sénéchal (Creator/VincentPerez) and Michel Fournier (Matthieu Rozé) enlist in the new Allies-aligned French army when UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} is liberated in August 1944. Michel and a nurse, Christiane Mercier (Géraldine Pailhas), fell in love during said liberation. Christiane gets pregnant, while Jacques and Michel take part to the bitter winter battles to retake the East of France (Lorraine, then Alsace) to the Germans.

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The story is set towards the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.in late UsefulNotes/WorldWarII France. Two childhood friends, Jacques Sénéchal (Creator/VincentPerez) and Michel Fournier (Matthieu Rozé) enlist in the new Allies-aligned French army when UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} is liberated in August 1944. Michel and a nurse, Christiane Mercier (Géraldine Pailhas), fell in love during said liberation. Christiane gets pregnant, while Jacques and Michel take part to the bitter winter battles to retake the East of France (Lorraine, then Alsace) to the Germans.
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* LaResistance: When the film starts, Michel is a FFI (Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, "French Forces of the Interior"), who were the nationally organized armed branch of the French Resistance since 1943 and whose uprising in late August 1944 kickstarted the liberation of Paris.

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* LaResistance: When the film starts, Michel is a FFI (Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, "French Forces of the Interior"), who were the nationally organized armed branch of the French Resistance since 1943 and whose uprising in Paris in late August 1944 as the Allies were approaching kickstarted the liberation of Paris.city's liberation.
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* TheMedic: Christiane takes care of wounded FFI fighters during the liberation of Paris. This is how she meets Michel.

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* TheMedic: Christiane takes care of wounded FFI fighters during the UrbanWarfare of the liberation of Paris. This is how she meets Michel.
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* TheMedic: Christiane takes care of wounded FFI fighters during the liberation of Paris. This is how she meets Michel.
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* WinterWarfare: The Alsace campaign largely takes place in winter, about at the same time as the Battle of the Bulge up North.

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* WinterWarfare: The Alsace campaign largely takes place in winter, about at the same time as the Battle of the Bulge up North. North in Belgium and Luxembourg. The final fights take place during ''Operation Nordwind'', an offensive Germans launched in Alsace in late December 1944 to try alleviating pressure from the Bulge.
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* WinterWarfare: The Alsace campaign largely takes place in winter.

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* WinterWarfare: The Alsace campaign largely takes place in winter.winter, about at the same time as the Battle of the Bulge up North.
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''Snow and Fire'' (French: ''La Neige et le Feu'') is a 1991 French [[MilitaryAndWarfareFilms war film]] directed by Claude Pinoteau.

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''Snow and Fire'' (French: ''La Neige et le Feu'') is a 1991 French [[MilitaryAndWarfareFilms war film]] directed by Claude Pinoteau.
Pinoteau. Music/VladimirCosma composed the soundtrack.



* LesCollaborateurs: Michel's father is a collaborationist, and gets condemned to death.

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* LesCollaborateurs: Michel's father is a collaborationist, and gets condemned to death.death when Paris is liberated.
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* LesCollaborateurs: Michel's father is a collaborationist, and gets condemned to death.
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* LaResistance: When the film starts, Michel is a FFI (Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, "French Forces of the Interior"), which were the nationally organized armed branch of the French Resistance since 1943.

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* LaResistance: When the film starts, Michel is a FFI (Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, "French Forces of the Interior"), which who were the nationally organized armed branch of the French Resistance since 1943.1943 and whose uprising in late August 1944 kickstarted the liberation of Paris.
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* WinterWarfare: The Alsace campaign largely takes place in winter.

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* LaResistance: Michel is a FFI (Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, "French Forces of the Interior"), which were the nationally organized armed branch of the French Resistance since 1943.

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* LaResistance: When the film starts, Michel is a FFI (Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, "French Forces of the Interior"), which were the nationally organized armed branch of the French Resistance since 1943.1943.
* TankGoodness: The winter battle scenes boast well-known tanks of the era, notably the German ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_II Königstiger]]''. The (real) one used for the film belongs to the Saumur tank museum, it is the only one in the world that's still in running condition.
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''Snow and Fire'' (French: ''La Neige et le Feu'') is a 1991 French [[MilitaryAndWarfareFilms war film]] directed by Claude Pinoteau.

The story is set towards the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Two childhood friends, Jacques Sénéchal (Creator/VincentPerez) and Michel Fournier (Matthieu Rozé) enlist in the new Allies-aligned French army when UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} is liberated in August 1944. Michel and a nurse, Christiane Mercier (Géraldine Pailhas), fell in love during said liberation. Christiane gets pregnant, while Jacques and Michel take part to the bitter winter battles to retake the East of France (Lorraine, then Alsace) to the Germans.
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!!''Snow and Fire'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* LaResistance: Michel is a FFI (Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur, "French Forces of the Interior"), which were the nationally organized armed branch of the French Resistance since 1943.
* UrbanWarfare: There are street fights during the liberation of Paris.
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