The child of a working class family is in conflict with his father. A waiter in a café puts him in touch with the Resistance movement. He participates in a raid on a farm and then flees from the scene. He runs to inform the police: the “terrorists” are planning to derail a train. It’s too late! The policeman’s words provide the moral of the story: “And this is what they call patriotism! Go back home and tell everyone what you have seen”.
First screening: January 10 before German authorities and Louis-Emile Galey, head of the C.O.I.C.. Philippe Henriot (who became Minister of Information on January 6, 1944)orders Henri Clerc, director of “France-Actualités”, to schedule the film the very next day.
Note: “Based on official documents taken from the archives of the French Police” (opening credits), this was the first film that Propaganda Abteilung commissioned from the company Busdac.