Timewatch · SEASON 18

Sleeping with the Enemy

Episode 5 · 1999-05-22

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Episode overview

Marcelle and Elise are two elderly French women who live at opposite ends of the country but shared similar experiences in the Second World War. During the German occupation of France, when their husbands deserted them, they had affairs with German soldiers. In 1944, the women suffered public humiliation as punishment for their so-called collaboration horizontale. This alternative portrait of the occupation interweaves archive footage with testimony from Marcelle and Elise, neighbours, and resistance fighters.

50 minutes

Season 18 episodes

1. Grey Owl: The Great White Hoax1999-04-17 2. The Crossing1999-04-24 3. Tales from the Oklahoma Land Runs1999-05-01 4. The Lost Temple of Java1999-05-08 5. Sleeping with the Enemy1999-05-22 6. Before the Titanic1999-05-29 7. The Forgotten Volunteers1999-06-05 8. Letting the Genie out of the Bottle1999-06-26 9. The Spies Who Fooled Hitler: MI5 at War1999-10-02 10. Ivan the Terrible1999-11-06 11. Tales of the Eiffel Tower1999-11-20 12. A Very British Mutiny1999-12-04