Aventure Malgache

Backstage before a performance, a French actor recalls his time in Madagascar during World War II, when he secretly ran a Resistance radio station under the watch of a collaborationist police chief. His story unfolds in flashback, revealing espionage, deception, and divided loyalties within the French ranks. Made for Britain’s Ministry of Information, this 1944 French-language propaganda short satirizes Vichy opportunism and wartime hypocrisy, and was shelved for decades before its release in 1993.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Cast

Paul Bonifas

Michel

P

Paul Clarus

Paul Clarus

J

Jean Dattas

Man behind Michel

A

Andre Frere

Pierre

G

Guy Le Feuvre

General

P

Paulette Preney

Yvonne