Aventure Malgache (1944)
0h 31m | PG-13
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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Studio: Phoenix
Genre: War, Drama
Video: 720p
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