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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Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Director of Photography
Günther Krampf
Story
Jules Francois Clermont
Writer
Angus MacPhail
Original Music Composer
Benjamin Frankel
Art Direction
J. Charles Gilbert
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Status
Released
Countries
France
United Kingdom
Companies
Phoenix
Ministry of Information
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