Aventure Malgache    

Director: Alfred Hitchcock  
Running Time: 30 minutes 
UK 1944

Post Screening Discussion with Dr. Tony Aldgate


On his return from Hollywood in 1944, this was the second of two propaganda films Hitchcock made for the Ministry of Information, for use solely as propaganda tools for the French Resistance. 

It was made as Hitchcock later told Francois Truffaut, to expound the inner conflicts which divide the free French, the conflicting loyalties between the Gaullists, Petainists and Vichyites. 

At the time, this was an area sensitive enough to make the film an object of official suspicion, and it was never released.            

Screening:

24 October 7.00 p.m. Maison Francaise
29 October 7.45 p.m. Oxford Brookes (The Lloyd Lecture Theatre)