
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.
Release Date: 1/1/1944
Runtime: 31 minutes
Languages: French
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
00Companies: Phoenix, Ministry of Information
Countries: United Kingdom
Paulette Preney
Yvonne
2008