THE FLEMISH FARM

Released by Two Cities Films in 1943, DVD, black & white, cert PG, feature length 79 minutes, condition very good

As Hitler's Blitzkrieg sweeps across the Low Countries in early 1940, a squadron of Belgian pilots take temporary shelter with their aircraft on a Flemish farm. Here, farmer's daughter Trescha tends the wounded pilot Matagne and the two fall in love. When the decision comes to evacuate to RAF bases in England, Matagne secretly buries the Regimental Flag rather than destroy it as ordered. As the time comes to leave, Matagne has to be forced to go and leave his beloved Trescha behind.

Now safe in England, he dreams of retrieving the Regimental Flag from underneath the noses of the invading Germans - but dies before he can attempt it. Now it is up to his best friend Duclos to return to Occupied Belgium to locate and rescue the flag.