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Les Suppliques
7.8 / 10• 2022• 1h 3m•NR• French
DocumentaryHistoryWarDramaTV Movie
Storyline
Since the defeat, the Nazis, who were the masters of the occupied zone, and the French State, which had been ruling the so-called free zone since Vichy, ordered the Jews to take a census. From the spring of 1941, whether they had been French for several generations or naturalized for a few years, foreigners who had taken refuge in France or stateless people who had been driven out of their country, they were put on file, arrested or threatened at any time. Some wrote to the administration, or directly to Marshal Pétain, who seemed to them to be the last resort. These requests are called Suppliques. Men, women, sometimes children, tried as best they could, by all means, to loosen the trap. They address themselves to their executioners, but they do not know it.
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Jérôme Prieur's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Les Suppliques is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
