Sixty years after the end of the Second World War, this choral film probes and gathers the memories of former residents of the Vichy region under the Occupation. A series of viewpoints, free and spontaneous, offers a contrast between what the reality of Pétain's regime was and that of the people of Vichy, confronted like all other citizens with the same questions and problems arising from the defeat. Twenty years after its making, L'Année dernière à Vichy now constitutes an archive in itself, a precious source capturing the expression of the last contemporary witnesses of the German occupation.
In the presence of the directors and Henry Rousso, historian, emeritus research director at the CNRS.
In conversation with Marie-Béatrice Baudet, journalist at Le Monde.
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