Trailer and Poster For Intense WWII Drama RESISTANCE: 1942 Starring Cary Elwes, Jason Patric, and Judd Hirsch

A new trailer and poster have been released for the WWII drama Resistance: 1942, starring Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride, Saw), Jason Patric (The Lost Boys, Sleepers), Judd Hirsch (Taxi, The Goldbergs), Greer Grammer (Awkward., The Last Summer), and Sebastian Roche (The Man in the High Castle, Six Underground).

Resistance: 1942, also known as Burning at Both Ends, is co-written and co-directed by filmmakers Matthew Hill and Landon Johnson (also of Hello, My Name Is Charlie), making their first feature film together, and it is based on the story by Jonah M. Hirsch.

Here’s the synopsis:

1942. France is under Nazi control. The Allies have been pushed off the continent and their defeat in North Africa seems likely. Germany’s victory is nearly absolute. Under this dark shadow, a man named Jacques (Cary Elwes) uses a radio to broadcast a message of hope. He hides in an attic with his daughter Juliet (Greer Grammer) and a small group of fellow survivors (Judd Hirsch, Mira Furlan), playing a deadly game of cat and mouse with the German occupiers. The world becomes too dangerous when the Gestapo send Captain Klaus Jager (Sebastian Roche) to catch Jacques. As Klaus closes in, Jacques and his small group make a desperate bid to escape their pursuer, trusting themselves to the help of enigmatic Andre (Jason Patric), a Swiss banker. In the end, that trust may turn out to be the very thing that leads the hunter to his prey.

This has a really excellent cast, and I like the story, but it doesn’t look super great. Hopefully it’s just a cut of the trailer that didn’t come together so well. I’m hoping so, because I want to like this a lot. Check out the trailer and poster below, and watch Resistance: 1942 when it hits direct-to-VOD on November 11th.