January 1, 1944
31m
EN
Alfred Hitchcock
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.
Paul Bonifas
Michel
Paul Clarus
Paul Clarus
Jean Dattas
Man behind Michel
Andre Frere
Pierre
Jules Francois Clermont, Angus MacPhail
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Guy Le Feuvre
General
Paulette Preney
Yvonne
Phoenix
N/A
Ministry of Information
GB
