Chabrol, Claude, Bouquet, Michel, Cox, Brian, Huntziger, Charles, Laval, Pierre, Rommel, Erwin	...	(Director)
Jean-Pierre Azéma, Robert O. Paxton	...	(Writer)
Michel Bouquet	...	Narrator
Brian Cox	...	Narrator (English version)
Maquisard Alfonso	...	Himself
General Bergeret	...	Himself
Jean Bichelonne	...	Himself
Maquisard Boczov	...	Himself
Pierre Boisson	...	Himself
Abel Bonnard	...	Himself
René Bousquet	...	Himself
Amédée Bussière	...	Himself
Préfet Carle	...	Himself
Procureur Cassaigneau	...	Himself
Marcel Cerdan	...	Himself
François Darlan	...	Himself
Joseph Darnand	...	Himself

Comments: DGE 123

Summary: French New Wave founder Claude Chabrol (Merci Pour Le Chocolat, La Cérémonie) creates a masterful look at the Nazis' media manipulation, which is as engrossing as any of his thrillers. Chabrol assembles a brilliant compilation of long forgotten film footage and newsreels produced by the Nazis and French collaborators during World War Two. Written by Jean-Pierre Azema and Robert Paxton and narrated by Joe Cox (Manhunter; The Ring), The Eye of Vichy focuses on the small town of the same name in central France where Field Marshall Petain's puppet government worked with their Nazi overlords to create pro-Nazi propaganda. Seeking to turn the tide of public emotion against both the Allied Forces and the Jews, these collaborators skillfully produced a strange alternative history of the war years that is both shocking and grimly fascinating.