Rose-France
Summary
In the smoldering crucible of 1914-1918, Rose-France emerges as a cinematic clarion call where Marianne's petticoats swirl amid cannon smoke. Byron Kuhn embodies Henri Dubois, a Parisian sculptor-turned-soldier whose chisel now reshapes lead instead of marble. When shrapnel scatters his battalion near Reims, Henri finds refuge with vineyard keeper Claude-France Aïssé – her cellar concealing both wounded poilus and barrels of pinot noir fermenting like rebellion. Jaque Catelain's Teutonic Oberst von Kleist establishes headquarters in her tasting room, ignorant of the crippled artist etching intelligence into wine corks. The narrative crescendos as Baron Byron Khun de Prorak's aristocratic spy intercepts a cork-message, triggering a bacchanalian sabotage: Aïssé floods her cellars with rosé, drowning German officers in 10,000 liters of patriotic pink while Resistance fighters storm the cork-slippery stairs. The final frames freeze on Kuhn's bloodstained hands grafting a rose onto the Iron Cross – botanical vengeance rendered in bronze.
Synopsis
A French chauvinistic propaganda film made during the Great War.
Director
Byron Kuhn, Jaque Catelain, Francis Byrne, Claude-France Aïssé, Baron Byron Khun de Prorak
