Marcel Verdier

Full length survey of highpoints in the explorer's life. Shows influencers he sought who supported his project and opposition and even indignities he suffered from enemies and those prejudiced against the idea of a New World.

A wealthy theatre owner decides to leave his wife for a dancer.

From 1940 to 1944, France's Vichy government collaborated with Nazi Germany. Marcel Ophüls mixes archival footage with 1969 interviews of a German officer and of collaborators and resistance fighters from Clermont-Ferrand. They comment on the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and fear of Bolsheviks, to simple caution.

Une enquête sur la nature, les détails et les raisons de la collaboration, de 1940 à 1944, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, entre le régime de Vichy, établi dans le sud de la France et dirigé par le maréchal Pétain, et l'Allemagne nazie.