Movie: Charlotte Gray (2001)
- Director: Gillian Armstrong
- Release Date: 8 May 2002 (Netherlands)
- Writers: Sebastian Faulks (novel) Jeremy Brock (screenplay)
- Run Time: 121 min
- Country: UK , Australia , Germany
- Genre: Drama , Romance , Thriller , War
- MPAA: Rated PG-13 for some war related violence, sensuality and brief strong language.
Tagline: The story of an ordinary woman in an extraordinary time.
Trivia: The schoolteacher played by Anton Lesser was called “Benech” in the novel, but the small French town in which much of the movie was based had a popular mayor whose name was similar, so officials asked that the name be changed. He’s called “Renech” in the final version.
Goofs: Audio/visual unsynchronized: There are several train scenes but in most (not all) of them the sound effects, mainly the whistle, are those of North American trains. European steam engines had a very different sound. Even the sound of the tracks is different in Europe because of a different type of roadbed.
“Charlotte, a young Scottish woman, who has studied in France, is living in London during World War II. Within weeks she both falls in love with a young pilot and is recruited by the Secret Service to act as a courier for the French Resistance. However her mission behind enemy lines becomes a personal mission to find her lover who has been shot down. Assigned to a Communist Resistance group she encounters acts of betrayal from sometimes unexpected sources, but meets the violence of war and her own disappointment with hope…. Written by <johnno.r@xtra.co.nz>”
