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Cinema Thursdays : Pétain, un héros si populaire

Created by Carly DeFilippo (See other events)
  • Nov 18, 2010 from 2:30pm to 5:00pm
  • Location: East Gallery, Buell Hall - Columbia University Morningside Campus
  • Latest Activity: Aug 21, 2019
Documentary directed by Serge de Sampigny, 2010, 90 min.In French without subtitlesSpecial guest moderator Robert Paxton will introduce the film and lead a discussion after the screening. Robert Paxton is Mellon Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Columbia University, and specializes in the social and political history of Modern Europe, particularly Vichy France.This new documentary looks at the relationship between Philippe Pétain and the French from the Battle of Verdun in 1916 through the Vichy years, when Pétain was acclaimed as the hero and savior of defeated France, and ends with his trail in 1945. The film is being broadcast for the first time on France 3 television on November 15, 2010. This is the first showing of the film in the U.S.
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