‘We swept a lot under the carpet’: Vichy regime film hits home in France of 2026
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Movie about Nazi-collaborating administration strikes chord during what director calls ‘time of great uncertainty’ It is the story of how a lowly state administrator unthinkingly becomes a cog in the machine of an authoritarian regime, embracing the bureaucracy and logistics of sending people to their deaths – and it is drawing in audiences to French cinemas. The French film Notre Salut (Our Salvation), with its mod…
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