History Series / AFrenchVillage

* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Hubert, a French POW, came home and found that his wife has born a son with another man. For the boy's sake, he claims him, but Hubert clearly resents her for this.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: Philippe accuses Marcel of not being so different from him while they're talking in prison, and the pair do realize their many shared traits.

* VorpalPillow: [[spoiler:Jules]] smothers [[spoiler:Kurt]] with a pillow, who had previously asked that he be killed as [[MercyKill a mercy]]. It's unclear if he did this for mercy though or because [[spoiler:Kurt]] slept with his wife.

* CassandraTruth: Judith doesn't believe it when Mr. Cohen says the Nazis will kill all the Jews, insisting that they need workers.

* NotSoDifferent:
** Philippe accuses Marcel of not being so different from him while they're talking in prison, and the pair do realize their many shared traits.
** The French Resistance later hang and shoot people without trial, just like the Germans.

* BigotWithACrush: Jean is a French policeman who helped round up Jews and holds antisemitic views. He falls in love though with a Jewish woman named Rita, getting into a relationship and saving her from deportation to the East. They conceive a child and discuss marrying. After this, he grows more sympathetic to Jews, helping a Jewish family to escape. This doesn't mean he entirely becomes a better person though. Rita leaves him in anger when she learns he let her mother be shipped away to Poland, and when she's back from Switzerland (where Jean sent them for safety) doesn't want him to have any part of their son's life. However, he still saves them from being sent to a death camp, this time even shooting a German officer in doing so.

* DisappearedDad: Jean relates that he didn't have a father growing up, so he's determined to be in his son's life. However, as his son's mother is a Jew (plus their boy, by Nazi racial laws) they must flee for Switzerland. Then after they meet again, she doesn't want Jean around and he's also a wanted fugitive, so this doesn't really work out.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: While facing the firing squad, the Milice members begin singing their song until they get shot, shaking th executioners with this display.

* FanserviceExtra: A French prostitute and German soldier have sex pretty explicitly while Marcel sneaks into the room to steal the man's gun.

* InterruptedSuicide: Jean comes home and finds Eliane tried to hang herself in guilt at Josephine's death. He saves her though before it's too late.

* HappilyMarried: Jules and Lucienne grow into a happy couple after their marriage (initially to save her from being an unwed mother).

* OutdoorBathPeeping: Antoine and his friends spy a young Frenchwoman bathing naked in the river, whom they spy on with binoculars. Then they realize she's with a German, and decide to take his gun.

* SadisticChoice: Daniel has to decide which of two people will be shot after he's negotiated a reduction of the hostages with Kollwitz.

Produced by France 3 from 2009 to 2017, ''A French Village'' (original title "''Un village français''") is a French dramatic series.

It follows residents of the fictional town Villeneuve in the Jura region of France during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, with the country being under [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German]] Occupation. Residents deal with the struggles of life under occupation, choices whether to [[LesCollaborateurs collaborate]] or [[LaResistance resist]], shortages, corruption, interpersonal conflicts, antisemitism and brutality from both sides.

It aired for seven seasons, with the series covering events from prior to the occupation until after liberation.

** After he comes back from the Soviet Union, Müller Hortense (who's horrified) that he'd overseeen mass murders of Jews there, happily talking about it and wondering at why one dug his own grave so willingly.
** The Milice leader Janvier happily talks about massacring an entire family after he returns from doing it. Later, his successor and other men talk about how they had a show trial of Communists, with the "defendants" horrified to see that their benches were actually coffins, plus mockingly singing the Communist anthem "The Internationale" to them first.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: While facing the firing squad, the Milice members begin singing their song until they get shot, shaking the executioners with this display.

* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Natacha, a prostitute who Henri meets, not only is a very nice woman, but also risks her life aid a resistance group by gathering information on the Germans.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: While facing the firing squad, the Milice members begin singing their song until they get shot, shaking th executioners with this display.

* AllGaysArePedophiles: A rare example of a woman occurs as, after learning that Marguerite is a lesbian, Lucienne becomes worried as she's in contact with girls, as their teacher. Jules insists this is silly though, saying he's done the same thing (they're all teachers), and she's mollified.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: In the first season, the commanding officer of Villeneuve's German garrison is adressed as "Mein Kommandant", [[GratuitousGerman a literal (and incorrect) German translation]] of the French way of adressing to an officer having the rank of major (German officers aren't adressed this way, not to mention "Kommandant" isn't even a real German word). The correct phrase would be "Herr Major".

* {{Cuckold}}:
** Lorrain flies into a rage after learning his wife Marie is having sex with Raymond, nearby murdering him.
** Daniel accepts Hortense's adultery more stoically, though he's still hardly happy about it, admitting he had been distant from her for some time.

* CategoryTraitor: All collaborators, naturally, are viewed as traitors by French Resistance. Many are punished for treason as the war ends.

* {{Irony}}: Müller relates to a horrified Hortense that he'd made Jews dig their graves before being shot in the Soviet Union, specifically one who obeyed him with alacrity and dug very well, wondering just why the man did that so willingly. He's caught later trying to sneak into Germany with false papers after deserting, and the SS guards make him dig his own grave too (very willingly, in terror). Müller presumably answered his own question about whatever the man's reasons before he gets rescued.

* ReminiscingAboutYourVictims: The Milice leader Janvier happily talks about massacring an entire family after he returns from it. Later, his successor and other men talk about how they had a show trial of Communists, with the "defendants" horrified to see that their benches were actually coffins, plus mockingly singing the Communist anthem "The Internationale" to them.

* ForbiddenLove: Lucienne and Hortense both have relationships with Germans, which many French people find to be treasonous ("horizontal collaboration"). It's also forbidden by German military regulations.

Produced by France 3 from 2009 to 2017, ''A French Village'' (original title "''Un village français''") is a French dramatic series that follows residents of the fictional town Villeneuve in the Jura region of France during the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, with the country being under [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons German]] Occupation. Residents deal with the struggles of life under occupation, choices whether to [[LesCollaborateurs collaborate]] or [[LaResistance resist]], shortages, corruption, interpersonal conflicts, antisemitism and brutality from both sides.

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Produced by France 3 from 2009 to 2017, ''A French Village'' (original title "''Un village français''") is a French dramatic series that follows residents of the fictional town Villeneuve in the Jura region of France during the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII German Occupation]]. Residents deal with the struggles of life under occupation, choices whether to [[LesCollaborateurs collaborate]] or [[LaResistance resist]], shortages, corruption, interpersonal conflicts, antisemitism and brutality from both sides.

Produced by France 3 from 2009 to 2017, ''A French Village'' (original title "''Un village français''") is a French dramatic series that follows residents of the fictional town Villeneuve in the Jura region of France during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Residents deal with the struggles of life under occupation, choices whether to [[LesCollaborateurs collaborate]] or [[LaResistance resist]], shortages, corruption, interpersonal conflicts, antisemitism and brutality from both sides.

Produced by France 3, this French dramatic series (original title "''Un village français''") follows residents of the fictional town Villeneuve in the Jura region of France during World War Two. Residents deal with the struggles of life under occupation, choices whether to collaborate or resist, shortages, corruption, interpersonal conflicts, antisemitism and brutality from both sides. It aired for seven seasons, with the series covering events from prior to the occupation until after liberation.

* YourCheatingHeart: There is a lot of adultery that goes on in Villeneuve.
** Marie and Raymond, who are married to other people, have been having an affair for some time when the story begins. For a time they stop after her husband's killed, before starting once again. Raymond also has sex with his housekeeper later, who becomes his next wife.
** Hortense cheats on Daniel with Müller, and then admits this to him. He's fairly tolerant of the fact. She also cheated on him with Marchetti once.
** Suzanne, once she's been forced to hide from the Germans with the Communist underground (leaving her husband behind along with their children) has a sexual relationship with Marcel.
** Daniel eventually has sex with Sarah (after Hortense [[GoodAdulteryBadAdultery already cheated on him]]).
** Jeannine, Raymond's wife, begins an affair of her own with ruthless antisemitic businessman Philippe. She later divorces him and then marries Philippe.
** Lucienne later cheats on Jules by sleeping with Marguerite.

* SlutShaming: Frenchwoman known or suspected to have had sex with Germans get publicly denounced as sluts and whores (whether or not they were actually promiscuous).

* FaceDeathWithDignity: While facing the firing squad, the Milice members begin singing their song until they get shot.

* KangarooCourt: Jules promises the group of Milice a fair trial so they'll surrender, and honestly tries to deliver. However, most of the judges are obviously biased against them from the start, then he's ordered by his superior to insure all of them are shot as an example to other Milice who have been shooting people in different places without trial. Their defense attorney, Daniel, is overruled no matter how much merit his objections have, as they also limit considering each case to merely ''fifteen minutes''. As a compromise, they acquit four, but convict all the rest and give them the death sentence, carried out on the next day without appeal. The Milice members themselves recount how they gave a group of Communists a show trial too.

* ModestyBedsheet: After their [[TheLoinsSleepTonight failed attempt]] to have sex, Suzanne is shown with the sheet around her breasts, but Antoine is lying bare-chested+ beside her.

* PublicExecution

* ShotAtDawn: The Germans arrest twenty random French civilians when some Communist resistance members kill a German officer. Daniel gets this down to ten, but can't do any more. They are shot by firing squad. [[spoiler:Marcel and Philippe]] are also later shot this way.