Good Trip

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Movie
German title Good Trip
Original title Bon Voyage
Country of production Great Britain
original language French
Publishing year 1944
length 26 minutes
Rod
Director Alfred Hitchcock
script Angus MacPhail ,
JOC Orton
production Ministry of Information (UK)
( Sidney Lewis Bernstein )
music Benjamin Frankel
camera Günther Krampf
occupation

Bon Voyage (Bon Voyage) is a propaganda film that Alfred Hitchcock in 1944 turned from an idea by Arthur Calder-Marshall. He is one to make of two films he turned on referring a friend to the British Ministry of Information in England in order to contribute to the war effort of the Allies and the French Resistance against the occupation by Nazi Germany's homage to prove (the other film : Aventure Malgache ) .

action

John Sandy Dougall, a young Scot, was a Royal Air Force pilot during World War II . After his successful escape from a German prisoner of war camp, he is questioned in London about the circumstances of his escape. In a flashback, it is told from Dougall's point of view how he escaped through occupied France with a Polish companion with whom he fled the camp.

It starts with the two of them wanting to go to a café in Reims in order to establish contact with the Resistance there with the help of a code word . The Pole is able to convince Dougall to go to the café alone, as the Scot could give himself away with his accent. He comes back with a couple from the Resistance, injured himself in the arm, and tells us that he had to kill a Nazi while trying to escape. The two young men use the contacts to get to the coast with false papers, where a plane to England is waiting for them. Since the plane can only take one passenger, the Pole waives and hands the Scotsman a letter, which he should hand over to a contact in England.

The British officer asks for the name of the addressee, but Dougall does not want to name it because of a word of honor to the Pole. Now the officer tells what the Pole really is about. In truth, he is a Nazi who has assumed the identity of a similar-looking Poland who is still a German prisoner of war. He wanted to sneak into Dougall's trust to find out about the connections within the Resistance.

Another flashback shows that the Nazi did not agree on that, but went to a completely different café. The Nazi met a couple from the Resistance there, but they had already been exposed. A collaborator who has already been waiting for them follows the three and the Nazi not only knocks him down (as apparently agreed), but kills him, as he later reported to the Scotsman, but only to perfect his camouflage.

After learning this, Dougall gives the British officer the name of the addressee of the letter.

background

  • Alfred Hitchcock uses a similar narrative motif in Bon Voyage to Akira Kurosawa in his famous film Rashomon by telling a story from multiple perspectives.
  • Hitchcock staged Bon Voyage , apart from the main character, with French refugees living in England who had formed a theater company called the Molière Players .
  • Hitchcock was paid £ 10 a week as a fee while filming.
  • Bon Voyage , like Aventure Malgache, was filmed in French.
  • During the shooting, Hitchcock was advised by various French members of the free armed forces of France, who not only talked him into the film, but also competed, argued and disagreed with one another. This situation inspired Hitchcock for his second propaganda film, Aventure Malgache, in which a main motif is the disagreement within the French resistance movement.
  • Both films were shown on Arte with German subtitles. Both films were released on DVD in the USA. 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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