The ambiguities and darkness of Nazi-occupied France propelled him to flee his country, take a new name, fight in the Resistance, and then invent film noir. But the past continued to haunt him.
Jews led—and purposefully did not lead—some of the many specialized groups that fought Vichy France and its Nazi occupiers
Allegedly involved in attack on French village of Oradour-sur-Glane
Free Men, a film about Muslim members of the French Resistance in World War II, evokes recent surveillance activity by the New York Police Department