This film received its earliest documented USA telecast in Cincinnati Saturday 5 November 1949 on WKRC (Channel 11).
The film recounts, in a somewhat transformed and idealized way, and transposed to the Charente, the act of resistance of Ernest Kempnich (1882-1978), a horticulturist from Lorraine, notably the episode of the destroyed orchids To this plot is added that of a resistant from Charente.
Book mentioning Ernest Kempnich:
"Hommes et femmes célèbres de Moselle", written by Jocelyne Barthel, Editions Bonneton, Paris, 1995, 160 pages, page 81, ISBN: 978862531908.