Plot
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.
Keywords: based-on-novel, collaborator, france, one-word-title, world-war-two
Uranus is a 1990 French comedy-drama film with Gérard Depardieu about post-World War II recovery in a small French village, as the controlling French Communist Party tries to dispose of Pétain loyalists.
It was directed and written by Claude Berri and Arlette Langmann, based on a novel by Marcel Aymé. The film was entered into the 41st Berlin International Film Festival.
We look in awesome wonder at the stars
The rings of Saturn
The red canals of Mars
The raging flame of Mercury
The ever-changing atmosphere of Venus
Jupiter and its titanic moons
The frozen face of Pluto and Neptune
The majestic blue of Earth
And the clouds of toxic gas around Uranus