Bon Voyage (1944)

Directed by

Alfred Hitchcock

Genre

propaganda film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

26 min

Rated

NR

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 73 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man recounts his escape from occupied France during World War Two but two different versions of the same events emerge. The film questions what is true and who can be trusted.

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What happens

Bon Voyage is a 1944 short French language propaganda film directed by Alfred Hitchcock for the British Ministry of Information. It was written by Angus MacPhail and J.O.C. Orton. Although the film is short (26 minutes), it uses two radically different interpretations of the same events, a technique not unlike that used by Akira Kurosawa in Rashomon (1950), Errol Morris in The Thin Blue Line (1988), and Fernando Meirelles in Cidade de Deus (2002). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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