Timewatch

Season 18 Episode 5: Sleeping with the Enemy

Marcelle and Elise are two elderly French women who live at opposite ends of the country but shared similar experiences in the Second World War. During the German occupation of France, when their husbands deserted them, they had affairs with German soldiers. In 1944, the women suffered public humiliation as punishment for their so-called collaboration horizontale. This alternative portrait of the occupation interweaves archive footage with testimony from Marcelle and Elise, neighbours, and resistance fighters.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

30

Episodes:

343

Cast:

Quality:

HD

Duration:

50 min

First Air:

1982

Rating:

6.9