The Eye of Vichy

The Eye of Vichy
DVD cover
Directed byClaude Chabrol
Written byJean-Pierre Azéma
Robert Paxton
Produced byJean-Pierre Ramsay-Levi
Narrated byMichel Bouquet
Brian Cox
Edited byFrédéric Lossignol
Stéphanie Louis
Production
companies
Canal+
Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC)
Délégation à la Mémoire et à l'Information Historique
FIT Productions
Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA)
La Sofica Bymages
Ministre de la Culture et de l'Éducation Nationale
Secrétariat d'État aux Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre
Sylicone
TF1 Films Production
Distributed byBAC Films
Release date
  • 10 March 1993 (1993-03-10)
Running time
110 minutes
CountryFrance

The Eye of Vichy (French: "L'Œil de Vichy") is a 1993 French documentary film directed by Claude Chabrol. It consists of a selection in chronological order of authentic footage, mostly newsreels and documentaries, shown on cinema screens in France between 1940 and 1944. Intertitles or a narrator occasionally add linking or supplementary information. The bulk of the material was produced under the Vichy régime and the aim of the film is to show the worldview which the collaborationist government of Pétain promoted to its population.