‘We swept a lot under the carpet’: Vichy regime film hits home in France of 2026

Movie about Nazi-collaborating administration strikes chord during what director calls ‘time of great uncertainty’It is the story of how a lowly state administrator unthinkingly becomes a cog in the machine of an authoritarian regime, embracing the bureaucracy and logistics of sending people to their deaths – and it…

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