Missak Manouchian and the Red Poster

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Missak Manouchian and the Red Poster (2024)

Directed by Hugues Nancy

Documentary, History · 1h 36m

In February 1944, in a courtyard at Fresnes Prison, the Germans staged a spectacle to stigmatize a group of communist resistance fighters—all foreigners and mostly Jewish—who had been arrested a few weeks earlier. The propaganda aimed to discredit these fighters, portraying them as terrorists and criminals, even though they had managed to carry out numerous attacks against the occupiers in Paris. The red poster, plastered in thousands of copies across the country, would immortalize them in legend. They were subsequently executed at Mont-Valérien, near Paris. Missak Manouchian, the Armenian who led these fighters, now embodies this group in the collective memory as he is enshrined in the Panthéon, on behalf of all his comrades, 80 years after their execution.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Hugues Nancy
Writer
Hugues Nancy, Denis Peschanski
Original Music Composer
Michel Korb
Editor
Yvan Gaillard
Producer
Emmanuel Hoog, Cyprien D'Haese

Details

Original title
Manouchian et ceux de l'Affiche rouge
Release date
2024-02-20
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Documentary, History
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
French
Countries
France
Production
Nova Production, France Télévisions