La Ligne de démarcation, une France coupée en deux (1940-1943)

Jun 7, 2021

1h 33m

★ 8.0

Overview

Between June 1940 and March 1943, the 1,200 kilometer long demarcation line broke France in two. For almost three years she controlled the daily newspaper of 40 million French people. In the north the zone occupied by Hitler's soldiers, in the south the zone administered by Marshal Pétain's Vichy regime. This film lifts the veil in this theater on the shameful mistakes of the collaboration, but also on the most courageous and noble deeds. Archive images and film recordings at places where the border used to be crossed are alternated with interviews with the last witnesses of this time.

Genres

Documentary

History

War

TV Movie

Production Companies

Roche Productions

France Télévisions

Histoire TV

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Cast

Self (voice)

Chloé Réjon

Self (voice)

Georges Caudron

Self (voice)

Bruno Magne

Self (voice)

Louise Grinberg

Self (voice)

Martin Amic

Self (voice)

Sylvain Lemarie

Self (voice)

Balthazar Gouzou

Self (voice)

Marie-Christine Letort

Self

Claude Leconte

Self

Monique Fermé

Self

Georges Parnon

Self

Jean Grenier-Godard

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