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Wikipedia article
'Forces occultes' ('Occult Forces' - subtitled 'The mysteries of Freemasonry unveiled for the first time on the screen') is a French film of 1943, notable as the last film to be directed by Paul Riche (the pseudonym of Jean Mamy).
Plot
The film recounts the life of a young member of parliament who joins the Freemasons in order to relaunch his career. He thus learns of how the Freemasons are conspiring with the Jews and the Anglo-American nations to encourage France into a war against Germany.
History
The film was commissioned in 1942 by the 'Propaganda Abteilung', a delegation of Nazi Germany's propaganda ministry within occupied France by the ex-Mason Mamy. It virulently denounces Freemasonry, parliamentarianism and Jews as part of Vichy's drive against them and seeks to prove a Jewish-Masonic plot.
On France's liberation, its writer Jean Marqus-Rivire, its producer Robert Muzard, and its director Jean Mamy were purged for collaboration with the enemy. On 25 November 1945, Muzard was condemned to 3 years in prison and Marqus-Rivire was condemned in his absence (he had gone into self-imposed exile) to death and degradation.
Mamy had also been a journalist on 'L'Appel' under Pierre Constantini (leader of the Ligue franaise dpuration, dentraide sociale et de collaboration europenne) and on the collaborationist journal 'Au pilori', and was thus condemned to death and executed at the fortress of Montrouge on 29 March 1949.
Cast
* Maurice Rmy as Pierre Avenel
* Marcel Vibert
* Auguste Bovrio as Bovrio
* Gisle Parry as Madame Avenel
* Lonce Corne
* Pierre Darteuil
* Marcel Raine
* Louise Flavie
* Simone Arys
* Colette Darfeuil
* Henri Valbel
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