Spielberg and the 6 Million

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, David Casseres wrote:

> The erasure of the collaborating French gendarme does indeed indicate 
> serious compromise on Resnais' part.  In partial mitigation it may be 
> pointed out that postwar France has never been a free society, especially 
> when it comes to telling the truth about official French complicity in 
> Nazi crimes.  I have no doubt that if Resnais hadn't erased the gendarme, 
> it would have been impossible to show the film in France at all.

I agree. Moralism is not very wise here. _La Petit Soldat_, Godard's
unyielding movie about the Algerian war, was banned for many years, and
even then, in 1963, it could not be shown without deletions. But for all
the compromises they had to make, Godard, Resnais, and other Nouvelle
Vague directors were important in the struggle to make the French society
freer and more democratic.

Heikki