
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.
5.3
56 reviewsRuntime: 31 min.
Budget: N/A
Revenue: N/A
Release Date: 1944-01-01
Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
Production: Phoenix, Ministry of Information
Languages: French
IMDB: tt0036621