in paris and a few month before the nazi invasion and the manipulative actress viviane denver ( isabelle adjani ) use her former sweetheart frédéric auger ( grégori deràngere ) to hide the body of a man kill by her . frédéric hit the car and the dead man be find and he be send to prison . when the german invade france and frédéric escape with another prisoner and raoul ( yvan attal ) and and they become friend . in the runaway to bordeaux and they meet in the train camille ( virginie ledoyen ) and the young assistant of the physicist professeur kopolski ( jean marc stehlé ) and who be try to leave france with his research of heavy water . once in bordeaux and the group meet viviane with her new lover and the minister of state jean étienne beaufort ( gérard depardieu ) and and be chase by a german spy and the journalist alex winckler ( peter coyote ) and while paris be fall and the population be confuse . what a delightful and magnificent romantic adventure bon voyage be . the excellent and complex screenplay have action and romance and war and comedy and espionage and drama and lot of character and play by a fantastic cast and indeed a constellation of star while the direction be stun while the music score be wonderful . i really love this marvelous film and and i have to finish my review due to my limitation of adjective to describe such a gem . my vote be nine . title ( brazil ) represent viagem do coração ( travel of the heart ) .