The Irony of Chance (French: L'ironie du sort) is a 1974 French war drama film directed by ÃÂdouard Molinaro and starring Pierre Clémenti, Marie-Hélène Breillat and Jacques Spiesser. It is based on a 1960 novel of the same title by Paul Guimard.
In Nantes in 1944 during the German occupation, a trio of French Resistance operatives find out that a German Wehrmacht officer has discovered the identity of their network and is planning to inform that Gestapo. They plan to kill him, but the film outlines the very different outcomes both if they are successful or if they fail.