Overview
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.
Cast
- Paul Bonifas as Michel
- Paul Clarus as Paul Clarus
- Jean Dattas as Man behind Michel
- Andre Frere as Pierre
- Guy Le Feuvre as General
- Paulette Preney as Yvonne