The Rays and Shadows (2026)

Jean and Otto, a French newspaperman and a young German Francophile, are fighting for peace in Europe. Jean’s daughter, Corinne, is launching a brilliant acting career in the film world, but war breaks out and France is occupied. The two friends have a major role to play in this new France. Jean becomes a big press baron and an ardent advocate of collaboration with the occupying forces, while Otto becomes the Reich’s ambassador in Paris. Corinne, meanwhile, finds herself thrown into the lion’s pit.

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Jean Dujardin

Jean Luchaire

Nastya Golubeva Carax

Corinne Luchaire

August Diehl

Otto Abetz

Olivier Chantreau

Guy de Voisins

Anna Próchniak

Lydia Rogers

Lucile Vignolles

Suzanne de Bruyker

Chloé Astor

Françoise Luchaire

Vincent Colombe

Guy Crouzet

Maria Cavalier-Bazan

Eva

Valeriu Andriuță

Léonide Moguy

François de Brauer

Pierre Labarrière

M

Meherio Patoux

Corinne Luchaire (enfant)

Elina Löwensohn

Tosia Luchaire

André Marcon

Julien Luchaire

Philippe Torreton

Le procureur

Éric De Staercke

Hibbelen

Colette Crouzet

Marina

Nicolas Lumbreras

Jérôme, le comptable

Philippe Lévy

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Bogdan Zamfir

Wolrad

S

Santiago Godoy-Giraldo

Lorenço

Jochen Hägele

Obliz

Oliver Bigalke

Gottschalk

Franz Lang

De Wiet

N

Nicolas Biaud-Mauduit

Patron Laboratoire Pharmaceutique

Nicolas Avinée

Philippe

Éric Herson-Macarel

Medecin

Giorgia Sinicorni

Delphine, vendeuse mode

Markus Schleinzer

General Van Haffel

Armand Eloi

Amiral Darian

P

Philipp Weissert

Friedrich

Alban Aumard

Waffen SS meeting

Mike Maas

Wehrmacht officer

Rodolphe Sand

Corinne's agent

Aurore Broutin

Woman in the resistance

Fabrice Delorme

Man in the resistance

S

Stéphane Avril

Man in the tavern

Damien Gouy

Young Gaullist soldier

David Baalcke

Von Choltitz

Jacques Ledran

Embassy employee

Mathilde Bisson

Woman Maxim's

A

Amra Guthleben

Young Brigitte Luchaire

Elise Diamant

Ginette Leclerc

C

Catherine Lairaud

Prison guard

Émilie Pierson

Sanatorium nurse 1

F

Fabienne Boutin

Sanatorium nurse 2

S

Sylvain Saint-Jalmes

Sceptical journalist

C

Christian Schweda

Gestapo Man 1

C

Chris Zastera

Gestapo Man 2

S

Simon Dubois

FFI Man 1

L

Lionel Ales

FFI Man 2

Aurélien Lorgnier

Bertrand announcer

E

Emmanuel Georges

Man in the park 1

V

Vincent Lagahe

Man in the park 2

J

Jean Pierre Horcholle

Moguy producer

N

Nicolas Benoist

Surgeon

K

Katia Crivellari

Paris nurse

Nicolas de Lavergne

Anonymous man

F

Frédéric Liévain

Sacha Guitry

A

Antoine Pinquier

Moguy assistant director

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