A Love to Hide

A Love to Hide (French title: Un amour à taire) is a 2005 French film made for television, directed by Christian Faure. It is loosely based on the book Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel by Pierre Seel.

Plot summary
The action takes place in France during the Second World War.

A young Jewish girl, Sarah, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood friend Jean, a homosexual in a clandestine relationship with his lover Philippe.

They are safe for the moment, thanks to Jean's plan to pass her off as a Christian employee of his laundromat, under the name Yvonne. However, a bad decision made by Jean's troublesome brother Jacques causes Jean to be wrongly accused of being the lover of a German officer. Jean is then forced into a Nazi labor camp.

Cast

 * Jeremie Renier as Jean Lavandier
 * Charlotte de Turckheim as Marcelle Lavandier
 * Bruno Todeschini as Philippe
 * Michel Jonasz as Armand Lavandier
 * Louise Monot as Sarah Morgenstern
 * Nicolas Gob as Jacques Lavandier
 * Olivier Saladin as Breton
 * Yulian Vergov as Johann Von Berg

Production
A Love to Hide is the second film of director Christian Faure dealing with homosexuality. He had previously directed Just a Question of Love (2000), a made-for-television film chronicling a love story between two young men.

This is one of few films about the deportation of homosexuals during World War II. (Also see Bent.) A Love to Hide is loosely based on the book Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel by Pierre Seel published in 1994.

Reception
The Variety Magazine felt the film was sometimes "over-rigged in script and direction" but nonetheless gave a positive review.