History Film / LesPasseurs

* FeudingFamilies: The feud between the Anthonioz and Nicod families is said to date back to several generations. Both Bernard and Maurice hate each other and accuse each other of being a hindrance while they do their respective smuggling job, since they both use similar paths to get people/goods across the border in the mountains. It also doesn't help that Maurice's late wife [[YourCheatingHeart cheated on him]] with Bernard.

During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Bernard Anthonioz and Maurice Nicod, two French mountain men living in the Jura massif, specialize in smuggling people and goods to neutral Switzerland. The two men hate each other with a passion out of an old families feud and have opposite philosophies. On one side, Anthonioz smuggles people who are threatened by either the [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German occupiers]] or the [[LesCollaborateurs Milice of Vichy France]] (people he smuggles include Jews, communists, homosexuals, downed Allied pilots and the like). On the other side, Nicod smuggles goods and ''only'' goods, usually stuff that his clients don't want the Germans or the Milice to get their hands on, such as works of art or gold bars.

* LaResistance: Sometimes, resistants come at Bernard to be smuggled in Switzerland.

During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Bernard Anthonioz and Maurice Nicod, two French mountain men living in the Jura massif, specialize in smuggling people and goods to neutral Switzerland. The two men hate each other with a passion out of an old families feud and have opposite philosophies. On one side, Anthonioz smuggles people who are threatened by either the [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German occupiers]] or the [[LesCollaborateurs Milice of Vichy France]] (people he smuggles include Jews, communists, homosexuals, downed Allied pilots and the like). On the other side, Nicod smuggles goods and ''only'' goods, usually stuff that his clients don't want the Germans or the Milice to get their hands on, such as works of art or gold ingots.

During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Bernard Anthonioz and Maurice Nicod, two French mountain men living in the Jura massif, specialize in smuggling people and goods to neutral Switzerland. The two men hate each other with a passion out of an old families feud and have opposite philosophies. On one side, Anthonioz smuggles people who are threatened by either the [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German occupiers]] or the [[LesCollaborateurs Milice of Vichy France]] (people he smuggles include Jews, communists, homosexuals, downed Allied pilots and the like). On the other side, Nicod smuggles goods and ''only'' goods, usually stuff that his clients don't want the Germans or the Milice to get their hands on, such as works of art or gold bars.

* MoeGreeneSpecial: François shoots a dart right in Guy's left eye with his dart rifle to save Séverine.

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Bernard and Maurice team up to [[PapaWolf save their children]] at the cost of their lives. They [[SuicideAttack attack the German squad with dynamite sticks, knowing they won't come out of it alive]]. Maurice has his homemade BulletProofVest on and tanks a few ''Mauser'' rifle shots before succumbing, but not before taking a few soldiers out with the dynamite. Bernard gets shot in the chest and blows himself up. This is enough for François and Séverine to escape.]]

* ConflictKiller: Séverine and François end up pinned down by a German squad. Bernard and Maurice put a stop to their conflict the moment they figure this out, and team up to [[PapaWolf save their children]].

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Bernard and Maurice team up to [[PapaWolf save]] their PinnedDown children at the cost of their lives. They [[SuicideAttack attack the German squad with dynamite sticks, knowing they won't come out of it alive]]. Maurice has his homemade BulletProofVest on and tanks a few ''Mauser'' rifle shots before succumbing, but not before taking a few soldiers out with the dynamite. Bernard gets shot in the chest and blows himself up. This is enough for François and Séverine to escape.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Bernard and Maurice team up to [[PapaWolf save their children]] at the cost of their lives. They [[SuicideAttack attack the German squad with dynamite sticks, knowing they won't come out of it alive]]. Maurice has his homemade BulletProofVest on and tanks a few ''Mauser'' rifle shots before succumbing, but not before taking a few soldiers out with the dynamite. Bernard gets shot in the chest and blows himself up. This is enough for François and Séverine to escape.]]

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Abraham Liederman uses Yiddish to translate what the two Germans who came at Anthonioz have to say, which is how they are found out to be homosexuals who want to escape certain death.

* HomeFieldAdvantage: To get rid of the Milice unit, Maurice has them go into the mountains during the winter, pretending to lead them to a resistance smuggler. He perfectly knows the field, and this being the coldest area of France in the winter, he puts his warmest clothes on beforehand. The Milice men are stupid enough to follow him and don't have warm clothes and get. The leader dies in a small avalanche, the others get lost and die frozen.

* MissingMom: François has always believed his mother [[DeathByChildbirth died when giving birth]] to him. She did... but not when giving birth to him. She died when giving birth to an illegitimate child from Bernard Anthonioz. Which is another reason the feud between the two families keeps going.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Anthonioz [[ForGreatJustice genuinely wants to help threatened people escape nazi/fascist terror]], while Nicod [[OnlyInItForTheMoney only wants to make profit]] by helping the black markets.

* HomeFieldAdvantage: To get rid of the Milice unit, Maurice has them go into the mountains during the winter, pretending to lead them to a resistance smuggler. He perfectly knows the field, and this being the coldest area of France in the winter, he puts his warmest clothes on beforehand. The Milice men are stupid enough to follow him and don't have warm clothes, get lost in a snow storm, and die frozen.

''Les Passeurs'' (which more or less literally translates as ''The Smugglers'') is a 2004 French MadeForTV movie directed by Didier Grousset, based on the book of the same name by Gilles Perrault and written by the latter. It stars Guy Marchand, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Toinette Laquière and Cédric Chevalme.

''Les Passeurs'' (which more or less literally translates as ''The Smugglers'') is a 2004 French MadeForTV movie directed by Didier Grousset, written by Gilles Perrault and starring Guy Marchand, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Toinette Laquière and Cédric Chevalme.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Anthonioz genuinely wants to help threatened people escape nazi/fascist terror, while Nicod only wants to make profit by helping the black markets.

During UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, Bernard Anthonioz and Maurice Nicod, two French mountain men living in the Jura massif, specialize in smuggling people and goods to neutral Switzerland. The two men hate each other with a passion and have opposite philosophies. On one side, Anthonioz smuggles people who are threatened by either the [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German occupiers]] or the [[LesCollaborateurs Milice of Vichy France]] (people he smuggles include Jews, communists, homosexuals, downed Allied pilots and the like). On the other side, Nicod smuggles goods and ''only'' goods, usually stuff that his clients don't want the Germans or the Milice to get their hands on, such as works of art or gold bars.

* FeudingFamilies: The feud between the Anthonioz and Nicod families is said to date back to several generations. Both Bernard and Maurice hate each other and accuse each other of being a hindrance while they do their respective smuggling job, since they both use similar paths to get people/goods across the border in the mountains.

* FeudingFamilies: The feud between the Anthonioz and Nicod families is said to date back to several generations. Both Bernard and Maurice hate each other and accuse each other of being a hindrance while they do their respective smuggling jobs (since they both use similar paths to get people or goods across the border).

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Bernard and Maurice team up to [[PapaWolf save their children]] at the cost of their lives. They [[SuicideAttack attack the German squad with dynamite sticks, knowing they won't come out of it alive]]. Maurice has his homemade BulletProofVest on and tanks a few ''Mauser'' rifle shots before succumbing, but not before taking a few soldiers out. Bernard gets shot in the chest and blows himself up. This is enough for François and Séverine to escape.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Bernard and Maurice team up to [[PapaWolf save their children]] at the cost of their lives. They [[SuicideAttack attack the German squad with dynamite sticks, knowing they won't come out of it alive]]. Maurice has his homemade BulletProofVest on and tanks a few ''Mauser'' rifle shots before succumbing, but not before taking a few soldiers out. Bernard ends up cornered and blows himself up. This is enough for François to shoot the remaining soldiers with his rifle and escape to Switzerland with Séverine.]]

* {{Opportunistic Bastard}}s: Roulet Delmas and Ivan Brontov. The gold and works of art Maurice smuggles in Switzerland for them is revealed to have been looted by them in the empty homes of [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust deported Jews]].
** [[spoiler:Maurice stole them everything and replaced it with junk and potatoes in the back packs before leading them to the Swiss border.]]

* ConflictKiller: Séverine and François end up pinned down by a German squad. Bernard and Maurice put a stop to their conflict the second they figure this out, and team up to [[PapaWolf save their children]].

* OneBulletLeft: François has only five bullets for his carbine when he and Séverine decide to flee to Switzerland. That's not enough against the German squad going after them.

* WorthyOpponent: The German officer admires François' skills with a gun, and recognizes him instantly from a distance due to this during the final battle.

* SuicideByCop: The woman who came from Paris to bring the news of the fall of Murat's network is so desperate after witnessing said fall that she goes straight into a German patrol's zone, and ends up shot by them without even trying to flee.

* ObfuscatingDisability: François feigns being sick to be deemed unfit for the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_du_travail_obligatoire Service du Travail Obligatoire (STO)]] and keep sharpening his shooting skills in the hope of joining biathlon competitions.