Release Date: 1944-01-01
Rating:5.3 / 10(61 votes)
Status: Released
Genres: War, Drama
Runtime: 31 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Angus MacPhail
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.
