Terrorists in Retirement (1985)

Name: Terrorists in Retirement
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Released: 1985-07-26

1h 24m

Running Time

Plot.

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs of war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were immigrants under the leadership of the Armenian poet Manouchian. After their execution, Paris was papered with posters decrying these 23 martyrs as "foreign communists."

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Details.

Release Date
July 26, 1985

Original Name
Des terroristes à la retraite

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 24m

Genres
Documentary Drama

Last updated: 2024-09-10

This Movie Is About.

world war ii

french resistance

german occupation of france

resistance fighter

nazi resistance

emigrant

family legacy

jews

history and legacy

documental

jews in hiding

emigrantes

emigrate

historical documentary

interview

Wiki.

Des terroristes à la retraite (Terrorists in retirement) is a 1985 French documentary film about the FTP-MOI, a sub-group of the Francs-tireurs et partisans (FTP) organization, a component of the French Resistance during the German military administration in occupied France during World War II. It was written and directed by Mosco Boucault.

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 1983 and provoked a heated controversy in France which resulted in the film not being broadcast on French television until 1985. The controversy was primarily caused by the film’s thesis that the capture and execution by the Gestapo of members of the FTP-MOIs Manouchian group (groupe Manouchian), including the group's leader Missak Manouchian, was faciliated by the leadership of the French Communist Party.