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Daphné Baiwir

Daphné Baiwir

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Biography

Daphné Baiwir (born 18 July 1992) is a Belgian documentarist, actress, screenwriter, and former model. Baiwir started her career as a model at just 3 years old; as a model, her collaborations include Christian Lacroix and Sonia Rykiel. She made her acting debut on stage at 7 years old. After appearing in several films and TV-series, she made her directorial debut with Devant les barreaux, a documentary about the everyday life of the officers at the Lantin prison. Her documentary The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland was screened at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. In 2022, she directed a documentary about film and television adaptations of Stephen King's works, King on Screen. Her 2023 film Le Film pro nazi d'Hitchcock premiered at the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival. Source: Article "Daphné Baiwir" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

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Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?
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During the Second World War in the United States, cinema was extensively used as a propaganda vehicle. All the great filmmakers were involved: Capra, Ford, Huston, and Hollywood's new master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. After making several films advocating American entry into the war alongside the British, in direct violation of the Neutrality Act, Hitchcock took advantage of Zanuck's departure from 20th Century Fox to launch a major new propaganda project: Lifeboat. He asked John Steinbeck to write the basic story. This great American literary figure, author of The Grapes of Wrath, whose adaptation was one of Fox's biggest successes, was himself very committed to the war effort. When Lifeboat was released, success quickly turned to controversy. What if Hitchcock's film had completely missed the mark? What if, instead of providing anti-Nazi propaganda, the film actually defended the thesis that the German people were superior to the Allies and the union of democracies?

Hitchcock's Pro-Nazi Film?

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