Chantons sous l'occupation

Chantons sous l'Occupation is a documentary featuring, with supporting archival documents, a host of talents and artists who made the front page of French cultural life between 1939 and 1945. A documentary that allows you to observe how many shows and concerts were numerous during the period of the Occupation, during the Second World War. Among the period documents visible in the documentary, let us cite fiction films (The Evening Visitors by Marcel Carné, Nuit et brouillard by Alain Resnais, etc.), performances by actors (Danielle Darrieux, Fernandel, Jean Marais , Raimu, Edwige Feuillere, ...), writers and artists (Jean Anouilh, Jean Cocteau, Sacha Guitry, ...) or even, responding to the title of the documentary, singers and musicians (Maurice Chevalier, Mistinguett , Edith Piaf, Tino Rossi, Charles Trénet, ...). Chantons sous l'Occupation is complemented by recent opinions and testimonies, with interventions by personalities from the artistic world such as Michel Audiard (filmmaker-writer), Bruno Coquatrix (composer and founder of the music hall L'Olympia) or André Pousse (actor).