Pierre Pochart

From 1939 to 1972, every film being selected by its own country of origin, the Cannes Film Festival was a diplomatic ballet and the object of much wider issues than a cinema screen. Post-war, cold war, wars of independence, muffled propaganda ... this historical documentary approaches a Festival under influence and sheds light on controversies that have remained in the blind spot

Paris, France, 1939, at the dawn of World War II. The French resistance orchestrates an incredible operation to put hundreds of masterpieces of art, part of the artistic heritage of humanity and preserved in the Louvre Museum, away from the greedy and dirty hands of the Nazis, who are about to invade the country.