
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


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January 1, 1944
31m
5.4
Alfred Hitchcock
Jules Francois Clermont, Angus MacPhail
57

Phoenix
N/A
Ministry of Information
GB

Guy Le Feuvre
General

Paulette Preney
Yvonne
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