However, the highest-grossing French Movie, Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis ... It was uniquely produced under war conditions in Vichy France and Occupied France. Due to Nazi-era laws about the length ...

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by the German occupation during World War II ...

who helped British pilots and spies escape Vichy France. Sensing an opportunity to be of service, Martinez sprung to action for the French resistance, secretly supporting Kenny as he helped ...

France had fallen to the Nazis in 1940, but an internal resistance movement had struggled to sabotage occupying forces and ...

Henri-Georges Clouzot, active between the 1940s and '60s, was a director primarily of noir films and thrillers. His defining ...

I believe I had the setting in mind before anything else, since the island was inspired by an actual place I visited. I ...

He argues that while Vichy France made little or no attempt to stop the removal of non-French Jews, of whom there were many - recent arrivals from Eastern Europe - with Jews who were French ...

But some aspects of the sketch — such as why collaborationist Vichy France would give the Nazi leader’s routine a perfect score — might benefit from a more detailed understanding of the real ...

What are the best movies on Max that you can watch ... which is under Vichy control as the Nazis have overtaken France. Then, of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, his former ...

In her début novel, a historian of Vichy France tackles her family’s real-life collaboration during the Second World War. Also: Elizabeth Marvel and Amber Iman star in “The Ford/Hill Project ...

Arguing that the path to collaboration involved not merely Nazi Germany but Fascist Italy, it suggests that the Vichy French government was caught in a double bind. On the one hand, many of the ...