Missak Manouchian and the Red Poster

Overview

In February 1944, in a courtyard at Fresnes Prison, the Germans staged a spectacle to stigmatize a group of communist resistance fighters—all foreigners and mostly Jewish—who had been arrested a few weeks earlier. The propaganda aimed to discredit these fighters, portraying them as terrorists and criminals, even though they had managed to carry out numerous attacks against the occupiers in Paris. The red poster, plastered in thousands of copies across the country, would immortalize them in legend. They were subsequently executed at Mont-Valérien, near Paris. Missak Manouchian, the Armenian who led these fighters, now embodies this group in the collective memory as he is enshrined in the Panthéon, on behalf of all his comrades, 80 years after their execution.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 20, 2024

Original language

French

Countries

France

Production

France Télévisions,Nova Production

Cast

Arthur Teboul

Director

Hugues Nancy

Writer

Hugues Nancy,Denis Peschanski

Producer

Emmanuel Hoog,Cyprien D'Haese

Music

Michel Korb

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

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