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Aventure Malgache

A former leader of the French Resistance finds that one of his fellow actors looks like a detestable official he knew in Madagascar during the war. He tells about his time, operating an illegal radio station while evading the Nazis.

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Release : 1944
Rating : 5.4
Studio : Ministry of Information,  Phoenix, 
Crew : Art Direction,  Director of Photography, 
Cast : Paul Bonifas
Genre : War

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Reviews

JinRoz
2018/08/30

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

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Stellead
2018/08/30

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

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Odelecol
2018/08/30

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

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Kien Navarro
2018/08/30

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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Tad Pole
2018/03/29

. . . it's a wonder that the "Axis" (that is, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, and Tojo's Japan) managed to lose World War Two. Some over-rated English-speaking schmuck named "Hitchcock" was tapped to answer "Leni Riefenstahl's" masterwork TRIUMPH OF THE WILL with a propaganda piece of his own. The garbled result from "Hitch"--ADVENTURE MALGACHE--is so incoherent that it seems an early wasted effort on the part of those proverbial million typing monkeys alleged to have the ability to churn out a Shakespeare play IF you have the patience to change their typewriter ribbons for a million years. ADVENTURE MALGACHE makes viewers wonder whether Hitch and his crew even possessed opposable thumbs. MALGACHE's nonsensical alternating scenes (flitting between a post-war Parisian theatrical dressing room and war-time Vichy Madagascar) is a contrivance so clumsy that it would have given even the monkeys fits to dream up. Ms. Riefenstahl wouldn't have been caught dead attaching her name to something as counter-productive as MALGACHE. Perhaps Hitch was a double agent.

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joshg1
2013/08/29

May contain spoiler- I don't see one, you might. This movie was commissioned to boost the exploits of the résistants after France was liberated- a political move on the part of DeGaulle's government in exile. It is well made, acted, and directed- the only fault on Hitchcock's part I mention below. The story moves at a steady pace and the actors and actions are entirely believable, whether or not the whole story is true.The only problem I had was with the end. Those actions should have taken a larger part of the movie and involved more characters. This movie was not released because it shows how the French were divided on what course of action to take in the many aspects of their lives. Unity was the goal audiences were to come away with- Aventure failed in that aspect.There is no reason to not see this movie if you have a chance- it won't come around again soon. I admit I didn't appreciate the wonderful ending until the next day.I am biased toward this film because I am fascinated by the ambiguity of life in WW2.

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James Hitchcock
2013/06/17

"Aventure Malgache" ("Madagascan Adventure") was one of two short French-language propaganda films which Alfred Hitchcock directed for the British Ministry of Information during the Second World War, the other being "Bon Voyage". "Bon Voyage" was intended to publicise the struggle of the French Resistance in mainland France itself, while "Aventure Malgache" deals with the Resistance movement in the French colonies. After the fall of France in 1940 the administration in French Madagascar (like that in some other colonies) supported the collaborationist Vichy regime until the island was liberated by British and Free French forces in 1942. The hero of the film is Paul Clarus, a lawyer and amateur actor, who is a leading light in the Resistance on Madagascar. (He is said to be based upon a real-life figure, Jules François Clermont, who portrays him in the films). His activities include helping anti-Vichy Frenchmen escape from the island to British-controlled territory and running a clandestine pro-Resistance radio station. These activities bring him into conflict with the villainous Jean Michel, who before the war was a criminal whom Clarus prosecuted in court, but who has now become the Vichy regime's "Chef de la Sûreté" on the island. Some Vichy supporters were quite sincere in their belief that Marshal Philippe Petain's regime represented the best hope for the French nation but Michel is a cynical turncoat; when the British arrive we see him replacing a portrait of Petain in his office with one of Queen Victoria (which he has presumably been keeping in preparation for just such an eventuality).In "Bon Voyage" Hitchcock did make some use of his normal suspense techniques, but "Aventure Malgache" is a more straightforward piece of propaganda. In the opening scene Clarus is seen discussing his adventures with some of his actor friends, so there is little suspense about the film; we know from the start that Clarus will survive. As with "Bon Voyage" the film is so different from Hitchcock's normal feature films, even explicitly propagandist ones like "Foreign Correspondence" or "Saboteur", that I will not award it a mark out of 10. It did, however, expand my French vocabulary by one word. "Malgache" is French for "Madagascan"; on the basis that "gacher" is French for "to spoil" I would otherwise have translated the title as "An Adventure Badly Spoiled".

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Matt Wall
2010/01/18

As agitprop, as other reviews have noted, this one perhaps isn't the kind of Howard Hawks rabble-rouser one would have expected to be produced in the throes of war. It's also notably low-budget, with all the scenes being produced in cramped indoor sets that accommodate very little motion, either among the actors or with the camera.That said, there are some classic Hitch moments within. There's the theme of the double, the double-agent and the duel (and duality) between the two antagonists, one a veteran of Verdun and a prominent defense lawyer, and the other the chief of police and security for Vichy Madagascar. There's the moment when one of the resistance fighters, about to leave for England to join the French Army, is betrayed by his fiancée who either believes this will keep him with her or is getting revenge -- we never know -- slowly, slowly moves towards the phone to drop a dime on him (and our hero), and the phone slowly comes into focus in the foreground. And there's this odd narrative device of having the story told from backstage of a French theater troupe in London -- exactly why the lawyer ended up doing a theatrical performance, after having escaped the Vichy and been a producer of his own propaganda radio broadcasts, is completely unclear, but it may be Hitch's subtle way of using the artifice of the production values to his good advantage. Even if you don't speak French, it's fun picking out the classic rhythms of dialogue and editing pace common to Hitch. Compare, for instance, to the almost contemporaneous 'Lifeboat', which was another completely talky piece of wartime agitprop shot in incredibly close confines (literally so in the latter case). If you can't use the great horizons of the outdoors, use the claustrophobic to generate that sense of dread of being caught that must've been endemic to being part of a secret resistance.I wouldn't seek this out unless you're interested in the social history of propaganda, the French resistance, or unless you're looking for a research paper for film school on Hitch, but given its short running time it is hardly a waste of time.

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