Aventure Malgache

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Movie
German title Landing in Madagascar
Original title Aventure Malgache
Country of production Great Britain
original language French
Publishing year 1944
length 30 minutes
Rod
Director Alfred Hitchcock
script Angus MacPhail
production Ministry of Information (UK)
( Sidney Lewis Bernstein )
music Benjamin Frankel
camera Günther Krampf
occupation

The Molière Players

Aventure Malgache is a semi-documentary propaganda film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1944 . It is one of two films he made in England on behalf of the British Ministry of Information to contribute to the Allied war effort and to pay tribute to the French Resistance against the occupation by Nazi Germany. The second of these films is Bon Voyage .

action

Aventure Malgache is set for the most part in Madagascar , and tells of the explosive situation on the island at the time the island was controlled by the Vichy regime , whose representatives meet independent or even resistance French. The lawyer Clarouse runs an illegal radio station and navigates between the fronts, making himself unpopular on both sides and ending up in prison in the meantime. In a supporting story, Clarouse, who is now traveling in England as an actor for the Molière Players and remembers the events in Madagascar in flashbacks , meets another actor in whom he believes he recognizes a possible traitor from Madagascar.

background

  • Hitchcock staged Aventure Malgache with the Molière Players , a theater group made up of French refugees living in England.
  • The plot is based on the real experiences of Clarouse, a member of the Molière Players .
  • Hitchcock was paid £ 10 a week as a fee while filming .
  • Aventure Malgache was shot in French.
  • During the filming of Gute Reise , which was shot directly before Aventure Malgache , Hitchcock was advised by various French members of the French Free Armed Forces, who not only partially talked into the film, but also competed and disagreed with one another. According to Hitchcock, this situation was one of the inspirations for Aventure Malgache, in which the disagreement between the representatives of independent France was discussed.
  • Aventure Malgache and Bon Voyage ran on ARTE with German subtitles. In addition, these two films were released on a US DVD. At the end of June 2011, a DVD was released in Germany as part of the Alfred Hitchcock XXL double DVD, which in addition to the original version also contains a German dubbed version of the two films.

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Films by Alfred Hitchcock


1920s

Maze of Passion (1925) • The Mountain Eagle (1926) • The Tenant (1927) • Downhill (1927) • Easy-going (1927) • The World Champion (1927) • The Farmer's Wife (1928) • Champagne (1928) • The Man of the Isle of Man (1929) • Blackmail (1929)

1930s

Juno and the Paycock (1930) • Elstree Calling (1930) • Murder - Sir John intervenes! (1930) • Mary (1930) • Down to the Knife (1931) • Number Seventeen (1931) • We Are Finally Rich (1931) • Waltzes from Vienna (1933) • The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) • The 39 Steps (1935) • Secret Agent (1936) • Sabotage (1936) • Young and Innocent (1937) • A Lady Disappears (1938) • Reef Pirates (1939)

1940s

Rebecca (1940) • The Foreign Correspondent (1940) • Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) • Suspicion (1941) • Saboteurs (1942) • In the Shadow of Doubt (1943) • Bon Voyage (1944) • Landing in Madagascar (1944 ) • The lifeboat (1944) • I fight for you (1945) • Notorious (1946) • The Paradin case (1947) • Cocktail for a corpse (1948) • Slave of the heart (1949)

1950s

The red Lola (1950) • The stranger on the train (1951) • I confess (1953) • Murder when I call (1954) • The window to the courtyard (1954) • Above the roofs of Nice (1955) •

Always Trouble with Harry (1955) • The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) • The Wrong Man (1956) • Vertigo - From the Realm of the Dead (1958) • The Invisible Third (1959)

1960s

Psycho (1960) • The Birds (1963) • Marnie (1964) • The Torn Curtain (1966) • Topas (1969)

1970s

Frenzy (1972) • Family grave (1975)