Invisible for 30 years, this French film broke his directors’ career

If you have never heard of this movie, it is normal, it has been banned for decades until it was finally published on DVD and Blu-Ray on September 4, 2024.

The work was angered by such a scandal that two of its directors had never made films. This is the only feature film by Jean-Max Case and Roger Tavern. During World War II, an incomplete portrait of French resistance, maid censorship and deprived in 1972 in theaters.

Invisible for 30 years, he arrived on film screens 30 years later, in 2002. However, this exit was very limited in only 6 copies. Until 2024, the general public was able to discover this work thanks to the DVD and Blu-ray release, thanks to the publisher of extractive films. “This film has been banned by the Goltist Power for 30 years”We can read as a preamble video publication.

Why such censorship?

But why did the maid of the maid go down the pillar? Recall that this story will give us Michelle Perat (Philip Leotard), the son of the Grenoble employee. The latter goes to Vercors to wait until the war ends without it.

On July 21, 1944, German troops examined the team and killed his grandmother in front of her eyes. Forced to flee, he joined a small group of resistance warriors and civilians and had to fight to survive three days and three nights.

In the beginning, the directors of Jean-Max Case and Roger Tavern have imagined a kind of French West, between Rio Bravo and the Western man who took place in Verkor, an emblem of resistance during World War II.

Natural teams, in the maze, are primarily noteworthy with its absolutely brilliant mountain landscapes, which are distorted by the horrors of war on these so -called lands.

Within 1 hour and 15 minutes, the film does not waste time in time. He drives us on a crazy journey of resistance fighters who flee the German attack, forced to hide more and more in the sink in Magas, trying to stop inevitable. With strong efficiency, the Frank Head in the first lead role presents a fabulous actress: Philip Leotard.

Abortion for a walk

In 1972, before the feature film was ready to exit, production went bankrupt and the only copy of the film was blocked. Director Jean-Max Causse, who is also a movie theater operator, managed to buy a copy in the mid-80s.

In particular, it was to be presented in 1986 when closing the Grenoba Film Festival. Unfortunately, the newspaper Le Dauphiné Libéré Torpedo will publish this idea on the front page by an article by the former Vercors President.

The latter thinks that the maid is just “Innomillable pants that move from ripaille to ripaille, from layer to layer. From drinking to drinking.” For veterans, the work conveys a The degrading picture of resistance and it is not acceptable.

In front of the scandal, the feature film is experienced and begins to forget for years. If he irritated such an effect, that’s a good reason. Indeed, after World War II, feature films such as René Clément’s Rail’s Battle offered an almost idealized vision of resistance, pristine romantic history.

Deconstruction of the myth?

After May 68, this story was interrogated with films that led to a confrontation such as Lacombe Lucien Louis Malle (1974), Shadows (1969) or La Franc-Tireur. These works have shown resistance to a less glorious light, a rather acervical critical dimension. Obviously, they did not like the government on the ground or veterans whose heroic image was offended.

Thus, the character of Michelle Perat, the son of the employee, is opposed to the rescue instinct, and not by real obligation, was greatly dissatisfied. For the elders, the filmmakers brought up the myth of the heroes of World War II to deconstruct.

However, when we look at the maids, we see the characters more in the undisputed humanity, we try to do what they can resist, with their small weapons, in the context of the whole war. Anyway, the film is now available for everyone and you can express your opinion.