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THE LAST RESISTANCE FIGHTERS

Drama - Development 2023

With the 1998 World Cup as a backdrop, four former French Resistance fighters discover, fifty years later, that you’re never too old or too crazy to “defend" your town from a "foreign invasion.”

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Drama, Action/Adventure, Comedy
- Countries
- FRANCE
- Languages
- ENGLISH-UNITED STATES, FRENCH
- Synopsis
- La Verdière is a small village hours outside of Paris. So how does it come to be that this formerly Nazi occupied locale finds itself facing yet another “invasion” in 1998? And this time not by German soldiers, but the large American bakery chain, The Best of Bread.
  
  Jean-Pierre Rousseau, Marie Lombart and André & Jacques Marchal are four old best friends who date back to their working side by side in the French Resistance of World War II. Now they meet daily to argue over poker at the local Bar des Sports, owned by Jean-Pierre. Occasionally, an old black and white television with a wire hanger antenna will pick up enough of a signal to enable the patrons to watch a grainy image of some random sporting event. Nonetheless, that is the charm of the place and the village in general, with its one bar, one butcher, one flower shop, one barber, and it’s one baker … André.
  
  It seems, though, a large American franchise, The Best of Bread is setting up shop near La Verdière and André’s bakery will surely fail. This is the yeast of his worries as the engineer behind it all is none other than Jean-Pierre’s son Cedric with whom Jean-Pierre has always had a difficult relationship. Cedric not only has the nerve to work for the American bakery chain, he is their president!
  
  There are some changes even an old soldier can’t subdue, such as encroaching old age. BUT, perhaps with a little dusting off of their keen skills from the war, there is one change they can stop. The Resistance Fighters can concoct and execute the crazy plan that can save André’s shop and preserve their way of life from another foreign invasion.
  
  With the 1998 World Cup as a backdrop, The Last Resistance Fighters is an cunningly crafted comedy/drama that brings us face to face with the modern dilemmas of what it means to be authentic and connected to each other and why it is important to stand up for what is beloved and not just what is bankable.
  
  But most importantly, it’s about the classic struggle we all encounter… where do you go to get a good baguette?