Overview
Backstage before a performance, a French actor recalls his time in Madagascar during World War II, when he secretly ran a Resistance radio station under the watch of a collaborationist police chief. His story unfolds in flashback, revealing espionage, deception, and divided loyalties within the French ranks. Made for Britain’s Ministry of Information, this 1944 French-language propaganda short satirizes Vichy opportunism and wartime hypocrisy, and was shelved for decades before its release in 1993.
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Music
Music by Benjamin Frankel
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Günther Krampf
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Jules Francois ClermontStory
- Angus MacPhailWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 1, 1944
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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