Missak Manouchian and the Red Poster
2024•TP•1h 36m•7.6•Released
DocumentaryHistory
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.
Director
Hugues Nancy
Writer
Hugues Nancy, Denis Peschanski
Languages
French
Studio
Nova Production
Cast
Arthur Teboul
Narrator (voice)
Production
Company
Nova Production
Company
France Télévisions
Producer
Emmanuel Hoog
Producer
Cyprien D'Haese
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