![]() ![]() Candide kills the officer, and the lovers flee to South America to remain there through a series of revolutions before returning to France. After smuggling Pangloss out of a concentration camp, Candide is rescued from a firing squad by a mysterious lady who reunites him with his beloved Cunegonde, now being shared by a Gestapo officer and a black marketeer. Captured by the Germans, he escapes to Switzerland and becomes a member of the International Red Cross. War breaks out in 1939, and Candide is called into the army. ![]() Reared in the chateau of a baron who manufactures antique helmets, the orphan Candide is brought up by his tutor, Pangloss, to believe that he is living in "the best of all possible worlds." Candide falls in love with the baron's daughter, Cunegonde, and is thrown out of the house when her father surprises them in an innocent kiss. ![]()
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