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Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation (2011)

Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation (2011)

History TV Movie Documentary
Release Date: 2011, October 11
Directors: Isabelle Clarke
Countries: France
Production: CC&C
Cast: Danielle Darrieux, Yvette Lebon, Arletty, Anouchka Delon, Gisèle Guillemot, Mireille Balin, Corinne Luchaire, Ginette Leclerc, Robert Hugues-Lambert

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

world war ii nazi homophobia german occupation of france prostitution nazi occupation german occupation