‘We swept a lot under the carpet’: Vichy regime film hits home in France of 2026 | France
It is the story of how a lowly state administrator unthinkingly becomes a cog in the machine of an authoritarian regime, embracing the bureaucracy and logistics of sending people to their deaths – and it is drawing in audiences to French cinemas. The French film Our Salvation (Our Salvation), with its modern lighting, improvised scenes











