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Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation

68% | Oct 11, 2011 | Documentary, History, TV Movie

Love & Sex under Nazi Occupation questions the burning mystery of intimate heterosexual and homosexual relations in times of war... and shows how being close to death reinforces the yearning for passion, for pleasure, for transgression, for desire as a last burst of freedom, as an ultimate call to life. Nearly two hundred thousands children are thought to be born of the union of French women with German soldiers. Women weren't the Germans' only conquests; indeed, occupied Paris swarms with all kinds of homosexuals—from Genet to Cocteau—who treated with the occupier. The fate of those women who were shaved at the end of the war for fraternizing with Germans is the punishment of a France that lied down and slept with the enemy.

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Isabelle Clarke
Writer
Daniel Costelle
Writer

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Anouchka Delon
Narrator (voice)
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Danielle Darrieux
Self (archival footage)
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Arletty
Self (archival footage)
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Mireille Balin
Self (archival footage)

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