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""Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator. He leaves his wife and goes to Paris. Gradually he inveigles himself with the resistance movement. They trust him and he helps them trace collaborators."--Internet movie database, viewed on February 14, 2011."
"Summary : "In the final months of a war that he hasn't fought in, a man decides to become a hero. Or rather to impersonate a hero...to invent a better, richer and more admirable life than the one he has. At a time of turmoil in the alien Paris of winter 1944/45, he becomes a virtuoso liar and, via omissions and allusions, builds up a remarkable character. After succeeding in entering the Resistance movement, he is called upon to hold an important post in the French occupation zone in Germany. This man, who is in fact someone else and who had nothing, will obtain everything: admiration, friendship, power, love ...but for how long ?" [cover note]."
"Since he was young, salesman Albert Dehousse (Mathieu Kassovitz) wanted to be a hero. Following the liberation of France after the Second World War, Albert leaves his home and wife and sets out for Paris where he befriends a young Captain, Jean Dionnet, and makes the acquaintance of Monsieur Jo (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a collaborator turned Resistance fighter. Albert, already a bit of a fibber, begins his life anew with a fully fabricated identity of a daring Resistance hero, based on library research and the war yarns of Monsieur Jo. But his performance so captivates the French upper crust that she's soon way over his head - and holding a key ambassadorial position. A gently comic take on the human need to reinvent oneself, with the lightest satirical touch."@en
"In this droll comedy Mathieu Kassovitz (Hate, Cafe Au Lait) stars as Albert Dehousse. At once a feeble slave to his mother's madness, history will remember Albert's captivating rise to heroism as a leader of the French Resistance. As brilliantly as de Gaulle eludes his nations collaboration with the Nazi's, so will Albert shed his life of mediocrity in favor of one more fantastical. Restricted from service, Albert can only watch as the war ends without him. He desperately resolves to flee to Paris where his inspired gift of deception and trickery will lead to a tenaciously drawn plan reinventing a new and heroic identity for himself- a true reminder that the best lives are often the ones we make up. - Website (http://www.newyorkerfilms.com/) viewed on 23 March 2004)."
"A young Frenchman flees to Paris at the end of World War II and invents a past as a hero of the resistance."
"In the final months of a war that he hasn't fought in, a man decides to become a hero. Or rather impersonate a hero ... to invent a better, richer and more admirable life than the one he has."