Promise at Dawn

A warmly affectionate biographical portrait of a celebrated French writer's formative years, balancing romantic idealism with the darker realities of war and displacement.

From his childhood in Poland to his adolescence in Nice to his years as a student in Paris and his tough training as a pilot during World War II, this tragi-comedy tells the romantic story of Romain Gary, one of the most famous French novelists and sole writer to have won the Goncourt Prize for French literature two times.