Robert O. Paxton
Acting
Known For
The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel OphĂĽls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by the German occupation during World War II, because it shattered the myth, cultivated by the followers of President Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), of a united France that had supposedly stood firm in the face of the ruthless invaders.
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
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Il était une fois... « Lacombe Lucien »
Directed by French filmmaker Claude Chabrol, this documentary examines Nazi and Vichy newsreels and propaganda films from World War II meant to turn the French against the Jews and the Allied Forces and into Nazi sympathizers. This movie is only made of archive pictures: the official newsreels that were broadcasted on French movie screens during 1940 and 1944 (the Occupation).
The Eye of Vichy
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Les lois anti-juives de Vichy, 1940-1944
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Philippe PĂ©tain
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