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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.
Keywords
resistance
Casts

Paul Bonifas
Michel
Paul Clarus
Paul Clarus
Jean Dattas
Man behind Michel
Andre Frere
Pierre
Guy Le Feuvre
General
Paulette Preney
Yvonne
Crews

Alfred Hitchcock
Director
Günther Krampf
Director of Photography
Jules Francois Clermont
Story
J. Charles Gilbert
Art Direction

Angus MacPhail
Writer
Benjamin Frankel
Original Music Composer
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