Even If She Had Been a Criminal...

Eût-elle été criminelle...

2006·10'

Jean-Gabriel Périot

Documentary

French

Letterboxd TMDB #300556

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French archive images of the Second World War pass in a dizzying tempo. The pace slows when we see images of the liberation. We see happy, liberated citizens, but slowly a cruel scene becomes visible. Women who are alleged to have had a relationship with the Germans are publicly insulted, shaved and beaten.