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Aventure Malgache (1944)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
War, Drama · 31m
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.
Cast
Paul Bonifas
Crew
- Director
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Writer
- Angus MacPhail
- Director of Photography
- Günther Krampf
- Original Music Composer
- Benjamin Frankel
Details
- Release date
- 1944-01-01
- Runtime
- 31m
- Genres
- War, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Phoenix, Ministry of Information