
Cinetrā

Cinetrā

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.
Writers: Jules Francois Clermont (Story), Angus MacPhail (Writer)
Cinematographer: Günther Krampf
Production Designer: J. Charles Gilbert
Composer: Benjamin Frankel
Production: Phoenix, Ministry of Information