Joyeux Noel

Joyeux Noel

Without an enemy there can be no war.

PG-13 2005 · 116 min · ★ 7.3 · Drama, War, Romance, History

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…

Directed by Christian Carion · Written by Christian Carion

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