Aventure Malgache

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.

Cast

Paul Bonifas

Michel

Paul Clarus

Paul Clarus

Jean Dattas

Man behind Michel

Andre Frere

Pierre

Guy Le Feuvre

General

Paulette Preney

Yvonne

Crew

Alfred Hitchcock

Director

Günther Krampf

Director of Photography

Jules Francois Clermont

Story

Angus MacPhail

Writer

J. Charles Gilbert

Art Direction

Benjamin Frankel

Original Music Composer

Clips & Videos

SFE 'Hitchcock - The Wartime Resistance Films' Trailer