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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And it is exactly what unfolded in Paris between 1940 and 1944, as the Vichy regime redistributed ... for all the worst impulses of mankind.” In France, it took a humiliating military defeat ...

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 ...