Aventure Malgache
The Molière Players
Aventure Malgache is a semi - documentary propaganda film, which was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1944. It is one of two films that he made on behalf of the British Ministry of Information in England to contribute to the war effort of the Allies and to prove to the French Resistance against the occupation by Nazi Germany reverence. The second of these films is Bon Voyage.
Action
Aventure Malgache plays mostly in Madagascar, and tells of the explosive situation on the island at the time of Kontrollierung of the island by the Vichy regime, meet their representatives to independent or even resisting the French. The lawyer Clarouse operates an illegal radio station and wash between the front lines, where he makes himself unpopular on both sides and in the meantime ends up in jail. In a frame story Clarouse, as an actor of Molière player in England is underway now and the events in Madagascar recalls in flashbacks meets, to another actor, in which he believes to recognize a possible traitor from Madagascar..
Background
- Hitchcock directed Aventure Malgache with Molière Players, a theater group of French refugees living in England.
- The plot is based on the true experiences of Clarouse, a member of Molière Player.
- Hitchcock received an honorary during the filming of £ 10 per week.
- Aventure Malgache was filmed in French.
- With the filming of a good trip, which had arisen immediately before Aventure Malgache, Hitchcock was advised by various French members of the liberal forces of France, which not only partially into talking to him in the film, but also competed with each other and disagreed. According to Hitchcock, this situation was one of the inspirations for Aventure Malgache, in which the disagreement between the representatives of the independent French was discussed.
- Aventure Malgache and Bon Voyage ran on ARTE with German subtitles. Furthermore, these two films have appeared on a U.S. DVD. End of June 2011 was published in Germany within the double DVD Alfred Hitchcock XXL a DVD that also contains a German dubbed version of the two films in addition to the original version.