Summary This movie is only made of archive pictures: the official newsreels that were broadcasted on French movie screens during 1940 and 1944 (the Occupation). Those newsreels were controlled by the government of Vichy, which collaborated with the Nazis, so most of them are propaganda. Their purpose is to show what the disinformation was then, and perhaps more generally to evoke the problem of the power of the mass media. View more details
Directed : Claude Chabrol
Written : Jean-Pierre Azéma Robert O. Paxton
Stars : Brian Cox Michel Bouquet General Bergeret Maquisard Alfonso
Genres : War Documentary
Release date : Mar 2, 1993
Countries of origin : France
Language : German French
Filming locations : Basilique du Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre, Paris 18, Paris, France
Production companies : Canal+ Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) Délégation à la Mémoire et à l'Information Historique
Summary This movie is only made of archive pictures: the official newsreels that were broadcasted on French movie screens during 1940 and 1944 (the Occupation). Those newsreels were controlled by the government of Vichy, which collaborated with the Nazis, so most of them are propaganda. Their purpose is to show what the disinformation was then, and perhaps more generally to evoke the problem of the power of the mass media. View more details
Genres : War Documentary
Release date : Mar 2, 1993
Countries of origin : France
Language : German French
Filming locations : Basilique du Sacré-Coeur, Montmartre, Paris 18, Paris, France
Production companies : Canal+ Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) Délégation à la Mémoire et à l'Information Historique
