Natalia (1988)

1940:A Polish immigrants' daughter, Natalia, is a registered student in a dramatic art school in Paris. Her diction leaves something to be desired but she dreams of movie stardom. As she works as an extra for a famous director Paul Langlade's film, she tries, by becoming his mistress, to make her dream come true.

Her ambition knows no bounds: she refuses to see her parents, she leaves her boyfriend, Tomazs, a young intellectual, a Jew like herself. During French occupation, she gets false papers, thanks to collaborationist journalists. While she is doing a film, a set photographer gives her away to the Gestapo. She is sent to a concentration camp . She survives, but when she is released, her parents and Tomazs are dead, and she has become a woman in very poor health, in search of her true identity.