Nadar and Julien Frey · Astiberri · 2021
The stories of the resistance of the French maquis during the Second World War or the liberation of Paris from Nazi hands are well-known., because they combine with heroism and swell with pride chauvinista. But little has been said about the Compulsory Labor Service (STO) which forcibly sent thousands of civilians from occupied France to work in semi-slavery conditions in the industries of Nazi Germany. The only case in occupied Europe in which workers are exiled by their own government, the Vichy, and not by German mandate, workers who felt the shame and stigma of the collaborationist. This is the story that Julien Frey tells in Justin, name of his wife's grandfather, one of many who was ashamed of what he was forced to do. Pep Domingo “Nadar” from Castellón draws soberly, black and white, the images of a script that becomes somewhat trotinized in the final part and closes in a somewhat cold way, but whose story is very worthwhile. AU
