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The nightingale book movie12/20/2023 To rescue her, her father, Julien, claims to be the Nightingale and surrenders himself. Not realizing that Isabelle is the Nightingale, the Nazis torture her for information. Isabelle, whose success as the Nightingale has infuriated the Nazis, is finally captured along with her friend Micheline Babineau. Vianne begins rescuing more Jewish children, forging false identity papers for them and sending them to the local Catholic orphanage so that they are not sent to concentration camps with their parents. With Beck “missing,” a cruel Nazi commander named Von Richter moves into Vianne’s home. Gaëtan smuggles the wounded Isabelle to safety, and they finally become lovers after years of desiring each other. While looking for the pilot, Beck finds and shoots Isabelle Vianne kills Beck to save Isabelle’s life. When an Allied pilot is shot down over Carriveau, Isabelle rescues the pilot and hides him under Vianne’s barn. Vianne changes his name to Daniel, and Beck provides forged identity papers for the boy so that he won’t be identified as Jewish. Rachel and her son, Ari, hide in a concealed cellar under Vianne’s barn for a day Rachel comes out for a few minutes the following afternoon and is arrested, leaving behind Ari. Rachel first tries to flee with her children, but shooting breaks out at the security checkpoint, and her daughter, Sarah, is killed. In Carriveau, Beck warns Rachel that she should go into hiding for a day. Isabelle learns that the Germans are planning to send all foreign-born Jews in France to concentration camps. Meanwhile, Rachel and her children are forced to wear yellow stars designating them as Jews. When he returns, Beck insists on caring for them and feeding them, an offer Vianne guiltily accepts. With no source of income, she and Sophie spend a cold winter with no food while Beck is away. Vianne is fired from her teaching job after objecting when another teacher is arrested. After a successful first trip, the British government agrees to fund her future excursions, and she begins regularly leading groups of airmen out of France. She isn’t in Paris long before she proposes a plan to guide a group of Allied airmen, whose planes have been shot down, across the border into Spain. She agrees, taking advantage of her sister’s good relationship with Beck to ask for special papers that give her permission to travel. Isabelle’s resistance colleagues ask her to carry a letter to Paris and to remain there to continue her resistance work. Soon after, Vianne is guilt-stricken when everyone on the list is fired from their teaching jobs. Vianne, however, becomes fond of Beck and agrees to give him a list of the Jews and Communists who teach at her school, including her best friend, Rachel. Isabelle, outraged by this arrangement, joins the French resistance movement and begins distributing anti-Nazi pamphlets around Carriveau. The invading Germans assign a Nazi officer named Beck to live with Vianne. Vianne tends to Isabelle, and together they learn that France has surrendered to Germany. Deciding that Isabelle is not ready for war, Gaëtan leaves for the war front the next morning without her. As a result, Isabelle and Gaëtan find themselves locked out and sleep in Vianne’s yard. When the crowd of Parisian refugees reaches Carriveau, Vianne locks her house because she cannot help them all. Eager to do something meaningful with her life, she agrees. She journeys on alone and meets her future lover, Gaëtan, who invites her to go to war with him. Isabelle evacuates Paris, along with thousands of others, and is separated from her companions in the crowd. Julien reluctantly allows her to stay with him, but he soon changes his mind when the Germans break through the French defensive line and approach Paris. Meanwhile, Isabelle is expelled from a French girls’ school and sent home to her estranged father, Julien, in Paris. When Vianne’s husband, Antoine, is conscripted to fight for France against the attacking Germans, Vianne and their daughter, Sophie, try to continue normal life in Carriveau without him, imagining that he will return soon. The Nightingale covers five primary periods in the lives of Vianne (Rossignol) Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol:
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