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.
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
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