The film depicts the rise of a young MP who, to further his career, joins the French Freemasons. He subsequently starts to believe that along with the Jews, they deliberately want to push France into a war against Germany.
It's considered to …
The film depicts the rise of a young MP who, to further his career, joins the French Freemasons. He subsequently starts to believe that along with the Jews, they deliberately want to push France into a war against Germany.
It's considered to be a propaganda film, but when you take into account how much propaganda we're given by the people who categorize this film as propaganda, it's to be taken with a grain of salt. There's more accuracy in the first 5 minutes of this film then in 10-years of the the propaganda Hollywood gives us.
It's how the so-called "Nazis" exposed Freemasonry to the French Population.
A French film of 1943, notable as the last film to be directed by Jean Mamy under the pseudonym "Paul Riche" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Mamy
On November 25th 1945, Muzard, also the director of the popular magazine "Ciné-Mondial" was condemned to 3 years imprisonment. Jean Marquès-Rivière, who had fled France, was condemned to death, to National degradation (loss civil rights as a French citizen); all his assets were also confiscated. Director, Jean Mamy (a.k.a Paul Riche), a journalist at the French Nationalist newspaper "Au pilori" was also condemned to death. He was shot by a firing squad at the Montrouge fortress on March 29th 1949.
Cast:
- Maurice Rémy as Pierre Avenel
- Marcel Vibert
- Auguste Bovério as Bovério
- Gisèle Parry as Madame Avenel
- Léonce Corne
- Pierre Darteuil
- Marcel Raine
- Louise Flavie
- Simone Arys
- Colette Darfeuil
- Henri Valbel
Directed by Jean Mamy
Written by Jean Marquès-Rivière
Produced by Robert Muzard
Cinematography by Marcel Lucien (photography)
Music by Jean Martinon
Distributed by Nova films
Release date: March 10,1943
Running time: 53 minutes
Country: Vichy France
Language: French
