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Bertrand Tavernier: 1941-2021
A tribute to the late director and cinema historian, Bertrand Tavernier.
A tribute to the late director and cinema historian, Bertrand Tavernier.
During the Nazi Occupation of France, when the country was governed by the German-controlled Vichy administration, 220 films were made by French filmmakers. Bertrand Tavernier is fascinated by this fact: "None of them was anti-Semitic, pro-German, pro-collaboration, or pro-even Vichy. Except for one film which has two dubious lines, you never had a anti-Semitic remark in the films of that time--even though you had plenty in the 1930s. I wanted to try to understand why."
