Représentations voilées de personnages juifs dans le cinéma de la France occupée : Les Enfants du Paradis (1943)
Concealed representations of jews in occupied France: children of paradise (1943)Numerous articles dealing with French cinema under Nazi occupation agree that it was not subject to ideological recruitment. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne, Jacques Prevert, 1943), a cult film considered “the main...
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2013
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Résumé: | Concealed representations of jews in occupied France: children of paradise (1943)Numerous articles dealing with French cinema under Nazi occupation agree that it was not subject to ideological recruitment. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne, Jacques Prevert, 1943), a cult film considered “the main œuvre of French Cinema”, even has a heroic image thanks to the clandestine collaboration between two Jewish artists: Alexandre Trauner and Joseph Kosma. This article analyzes the actual differences between the script written in 1942 and the film as shown in 1945. In this very modified later version (1944), one of the characters seems to be a camouflaged Jew. In addition to the unforgettable love story and the superb representation of the theater world of the 19th century, one can also read a portrayal of France in 1942 with its heroes and its traitors who are destined to be killed by the film’s conclusion. In actuality, perhaps too much attention has been given to the “clandestine collaboration” between these two famous Jewish artists, an importance which tended to overshadow the significance of an artistic work which in its original form could have been interpreted quite differently. |
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