Movie

Aventure Malgache (1944)

• NR
• January 1, 1944
• 31m

• War
• Drama

Overview

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

Writers

Jules Francois Clermont, Angus MacPhail

Starring

Paul Bonifas, Paul Clarus, Jean Dattas