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Images et paroles du Maréchal Pétain

Cast and Credits

Op.: Noël Ramettre; Prod.: Série La France en marche, n°3; Commissionato da Secrétariat général à l’Information. 35 mm. L.: 233m. D.: 18’.

Film notes

A visit to Pétain’s small country home in Antibes. Some recollections about his friend – ship with Franco (Pétain was appointed as French ambassador to Spain in 1939) and then off to Hôtel du Parc, his official residence in Vichy France as of 1940. Marshal Pétain visits a youth camp, a model farm and the city of Arles for a ceremony commemorating Frédéric Mistral. The last scene is a conversation between Philippe Pétain and his biographer.

Copy sourced from
Edition 2009
Film version French version
Section Inside Vichy: French Cinema during the Occupation