In Claude Autant-Lara’s La Traversée de Paris (1956), the portrayal of the city’s black market and general mediocrity revealed the reality of war-profiteering during the occupation. In the 1950s, a less heroic interpretation of the Résistance to the occupation gradually began to emerge. 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. 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. In the immediate post-war years, French cinema produced a number of films that portrayed a France broadly present in the Résistance. The Résistance is also portrayed in Jean Renoir’s wartime This Land is Mine (1943), which was produced in the USA. A famous example is the poem “Strophes pour se souvenir”, which was written by the communist academic Louis Aragon in 1955 to commemorate the heroism of the Manouchian Group, whose 23 members were shot by the Nazis.
The French Résistance has had a great influence on literature, particularly in France. Digite seu endereço de e-mail para assinar este blog e receber notificações de novas publicações por e-mail.
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