L'oeil de Vichy

Jun 11 1993 Not Rated 1h 50m
Documentary, War

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).

Plot

This movie is only made of archive pictures: the official newsreels that were broadcasted on French movie screens during 1940 and 1944 (the Occupation). Those newsreels were controlled by the government of Vichy, which collaborated with the Nazis, so most of them are propaganda. Their purpose is to show what the disinformation was then, and perhaps more generally to evoke the problem of the power of the mass media.

Written by

Jean-Pierre Azéma, Robert O. Paxton

Directed by

Claude Chabrol

Cast

Michel Bouquet, Brian Cox, Maquisard Alfonso

Crew

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Production Countries

France

Languages

Français, Deutsch

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
365
Average Rating
7.2 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA