CANDIDE

Candide according to Voltaire is a French film realized by Norbert Carbonnaux, release in 1961.

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Transposed to XXE century, here the novel of Voltaire.

Charmer and innocent, Candide is vigorously driven out by the baron, to have tightened closely nice Cunégonde. Second World war burst, mobilized and been captive, the weather is constrained to take German nationality and finds itself to keep the camp where he was a prisoner.

It passes to Switzerland, but not having banking account, it is imprisoned during eight days for violation of territory. Tracked by Gestapo, it kills two men to deliver Cunégonde finally found. They flee both in Argentina and their turn of the world starts. With Paris, with Moscow, with New York, with Borneo or with Alexandria. They try to conform to the optimistic rule of life of Doctor Pangloss. Ballotés, separate, they are found out-of-date and assagis, not thinking more that to cultivate their garden in edge of the Mediterranean.

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Critical sour and satire of the world, the film reviews the most significant subjects of the time : collaboration and those which benefitted from the war, death camps (one sees delegates of the Red Cross visiting a camp while a chimney of crematorium smokes with far), them in spite of us, colonial wars according to the Second World war, it Stalinism, "operations of maintenance of peace" carried out by The United States and it Soviet Union, segregation and it wearing of weapon in the United States.

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