An Intimate History of Occupation

IMDb 6.5 2011 • 80 min • DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie

Director

Daniel Costelle

Country

FR

Plot Summary

June 14, 1940. The German Army marches into Paris. France is an occupied country. Through exclusive amateur footage, personal stories, and popular songs from the time, this fi lm recounts life with the enemy during the occupation, as seen by the French... and the Germans! Despite the Nazis and the troubled war times, day-to-day life in occupied France went on. People learnt to live with the rationing, the cues, the curfew... Many try to forget the hard times, mainly thanks to the movies in which big stars provide a little dream and lead a privileged life. These stars don't actually collaborate, butadapt and give the impression of normal life during the war. After all, is it necessarily shameful to shake the hand of an enemy?

Top Cast

Anouchka Delon
Anouchka Delon Narrator (voice)
Alain Delon
Alain Delon Narrator (voice)
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Benoîte Groult
Benoîte Groult Self
Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf Self (archive footage)