L'Europe des fronts populaires

original title:
L'Europe des fronts populaires
other titles:
(Europa der Volksfronten)
country / year of production:
France / 2006 (x)
original length:
52 min. , color
premiere:
13 December 2006, Arte
genre:
Documentary
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Laurence Jourdan
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This documentary deals with the popular front, an alliance consisting of social democrats, communists, socialists and middle-class intellectuals, that entered the governmental power in France and Spain for a short time in 1936. The alliance opposed fascism and gave a little bit of hope to the crisis looming Europe.
keywords:
resistance, opposition , Resistance , fascism , civilians , communism , collaboration
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
Pascal Ory. La belle illusion: Culture et politique sous le signe du Front populaire, 1935-1938. Paris: Plon, 1994.

Serge Wolikow. Le Front populaire en France. Bruxelles: Ed. Complexe, 1996.
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