The Nightingale: Book vs. Movie

Michael Morris's forthcoming film The Nightingale adapts Kristin Hannah's 2015 book. Dakota and Elle Fanning play sisters whose lives take different paths during the German occupation of France.

ComingIn theaters March 19, 2027

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About the book and the movie
Book
The Nightingale cover
Author
Kristin Hannah
Year
2015
Pages
608Buy book
Audiobook length
17 hr 19 minGet audiobook
Narrator
Polly Stone

With her husband away fighting, Vianne Mauriac tries to keep her daughter safe as a German officer takes over their home in occupied France. Her younger sister Isabelle joins the Resistance. Their strained relationship unfolds alongside the different risks each takes to protect others during the war.

Movie
The Nightingale poster
Director
Michael Morris
Year
2027
Cast
Dakota Fanning, Elle Fanning, Mark Rylance, Shira Haas
Genre
drama film
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In German-occupied France, sisters Vianne and Isabelle take separate paths through World War II. Each faces decisions about survival, love and resistance as the occupation reaches into her life, testing the ties between two women with very different temperaments.

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