Page "French Resistance" Paragraph 121

In the immediate post-war years, French cinema produced a number of films that portrayed a France broadly present in the Résistance.

The 1946 La Bataille du rail depicted the courageous efforts of French railway workers to sabotage German reinforcement trains, and in the same year Le Père tranquille told the story of a quiet insurance agent secretly involved in the bombing of a factory.

Collaborators were hatefully presented as a rare minority, as played by Pierre Brewer in Jéricho ( 1946 ) or Serge Reggiani in Les Portes de la nuit ( 1946 ), and movements such as the Milice were rarely evoked.