Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation

72 mins | Documentary, History | Oct. 11, 2011

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.

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation

72 mins | Documentary, History | Oct. 11, 2011

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation
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.
Producers CC&C – Clarke Costelle et Cie
Original title Amour et sexe sous l'Occupation
Directors Isabelle Clarke
Writers Camille Lavavasseur, Daniel Costelle, Isabelle Clarke

Cast

Anouchka Delon

as Narrator (voice)

Yvette Lebon

as Self

Danielle Darrieux

as Self (archival footage)

Arletty

as Self (archival footage)

Mireille Balin

as Self (archival footage)

Corinne Luchaire

as Self (archival footage)

Ginette Leclerc

as Self (archival footage)

Pierre Barillet

as Self

Patrick Buisson

as Self

Robert Hugues-Lambert

as Self (archival footage)