Charlotte: A Royal at War (aka Léif Lëtzebuerger) is competing for the Public Audience award in the prestigious Luxemboug Filmprais competition,December 4. We'd love it, if you would add YOUR vote for the filmby the deadline: 14:00, 2 Dec. The first 4 links will go straight to the voting page and it only takes a few seconds. For the RTL website, you do need to register - within a couple of minutes you can place your vote!
Our Co-Producers Lynn Rothwell and Candice Allen-Olson will be at the awardsevening, this Friday 4 December; we will let you know what happens.
Please do vote for Léif Lëtzebuerger - to give us the best possible chance of winning! There's some very strong competition, so we need every single vote we can. Please pass on to your friends and contacts, inviting them to vote for our film!
Charlotte: A Royal at War* is the remarkable untold story of the Royal “propagandist in pearls” who inspired a nation through the power of radio, reaching her people in their darkest hour.This is the true account of one woman and her government’s pursuit of freedom for their country, against the brutal occupation by Hitler’s Third Reich.
It reveals a powerful truth: that ordinary people will endure hardship, imprisonment, even death, if they have someone to believe in - to keep their hopes alive. Combining vivid eyewitness testimony with dramatic reconstruction and unique colour archive.
Charlotte: A Royal at War* explores the extraordinary bond between Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg and her people. As Hitler’s army invades in 1940, Charlotte and key government ministers escape across the French border, to set up a government-in-exile, based in London and North America. Luxembourgers who stay behind endure five bitter years of occupation at the hands of the Third Reich. Against criticism that she's abandoned her people, Charlotte uses the airwaves to broadcast propaganda messages, as the only real weapon at her disposal.She was the Mother of the country. But it was her government ministers, not Charlotte, who wrote the scripts for her radio broadcasts.
*aka Léif Lëtzebuerger
Produced in association with Centre National de l'Audiovisuel (CNA)
