The era of the German Occupation of France constituted,
surprisingly, a golden age for the arts: literature, theater,
popular music and cinema. These works of art seem to be devoid of
political impact. The widespread trend of unrealistic and fantastic
art during this period is explained by some scholars as the artists
escape from the omnipotent eye of German censorship. The purpose of
the book is to show that, contrary to the accepted view, some of
these films were intimately linked to the political situation. They
convey the demonization of characters that, while not specifically
presented as Jews nevertheless manifested anti-Semitic stereotypes
of the Jew as ugly, rootless, low, hypocritical, immoral, cruel and
power hungry. All five movies analysed (Les Inconnus dans la
maison, dir. Henri Decoin, 1942; Les Visiteurs du Soir, dir. Marcel
Carne, 1942; L'Eternel retour, dir. Jean Delannoy, 1943; Les
Enfants du Paradis, dir. Marcel Carne, 1943) present characters not
identified as Jews but who exhibit negative Jewish traits, in
contrast to the aristocratic characters whom they aspire to
emulate. They demonstrate, implicitly, central themes of explicit
anti-Semitic propaganda. Yehuda Moraly addresses two current major
misconceptions regarding the Cinema of Occupied France: (1) that
the accepted view that there were almost no explicitly Jewish
characters in the cinema of that time and place is patently
incorrect; and (2) that the feature films of Occupied France were
not as it is commonly thought free of the propaganda messages that
permeated the press, the radio and documentary films. Analysis of
these films brings out the contradictory nature of European
anti-Semitism. On one hand, the Jew is the anti-Christ, throttling
the world with disgusting materialism while on the other hand, he
is representative of an ancestral stifling morality, which it is
time to abolish.
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