The Resistance (1939-1945) in a few documentaries (1)
The French Resistance during the early years of World War II was not one, but many. From the Debacle with the defeat of the Metropolitan Army of France in 1940 to the Liberation in 1944, from the early embryonic organizations to the difficult unification under the aegis of General de Gaulle, the enclosed documentary by Patrick Rotman restores this heterogeneity by intertwining the destinies of some thirty men and women, leaders and foot soldiers of the army of shadows.
Composed of testimonies, often poignant, from resistance fighters:
- such as archive footage where Christian Pineau (socialist union leader and resistance member) who recounts having shaved Jean Moulin (the first designated President of the National Council of the Resistance), horribly tortured, at Montluc prison;
- rare images of occupied France, little-known documents (letters, reports, files of infiltrated agents...) and remarkable animated reconstructions of key episodes from a first tense meeting between Henri Frenay (Gaulist resistance fighter who always thought that Moulin was a communist) and Moulin to the Barbès metro bombing !n 1941 (the first deadly act of resistance against German occupation troops).
This fresco, as dense as it's fascinating, explores three facets of the same story: that of clandestine movements and networks, that of their relationship with French public opinion, and that of the repression orchestrated by the occupier and the Vichy regime.
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Composed of testimonies, often poignant, from resistance fighters:
- such as archive footage where Christian Pineau (socialist union leader and resistance member) who recounts having shaved Jean Moulin (the first designated President of the National Council of the Resistance), horribly tortured, at Montluc prison;
- rare images of occupied France, little-known documents (letters, reports, files of infiltrated agents...) and remarkable animated reconstructions of key episodes from a first tense meeting between Henri Frenay (Gaulist resistance fighter who always thought that Moulin was a communist) and Moulin to the Barbès metro bombing !n 1941 (the first deadly act of resistance against German occupation troops).
This fresco, as dense as it's fascinating, explores three facets of the same story: that of clandestine movements and networks, that of their relationship with French public opinion, and that of the repression orchestrated by the occupier and the Vichy regime.
[media=https://youtu.be/Uzp-JKQ3UyM]
