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    Bon Voyage is a 1944 short propaganda film directed by Alfred Hitchcock for the British Ministry of Information. The film is told in flashback from the perspectives of a Royal Air Force air gunner and an intelligence officer. From the gunner's view, he escapes from German-occupied France with help from resistance fighters. However, the intelligence officer reveals that the gunner's companion was actually a Gestapo spy who betrayed resistance members. The film uses two conflicting accounts of the same events, similar to techniques in Rashomon and Cidade de Deus.

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    Bon Voyage is a 1944 short propaganda film directed by Alfred Hitchcock for the British Ministry of Information. The film is told in flashback from the perspectives of a Royal Air Force air gunner and an intelligence officer. From the gunner's view, he escapes from German-occupied France with help from resistance fighters. However, the intelligence officer reveals that the gunner's companion was actually a Gestapo spy who betrayed resistance members. The film uses two conflicting accounts of the same events, similar to techniques in Rashomon and Cidade de Deus.

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    Bon Voyage is a 1944 short propaganda film directed by Alfred Hitchcock for the British Ministry of Information. The film is told in flashback from the perspectives of a Royal Air Force air gunner and an intelligence officer. From the gunner's view, he escapes from German-occupied France with help from resistance fighters. However, the intelligence officer reveals that the gunner's companion was actually a Gestapo spy who betrayed resistance members. The film uses two conflicting accounts of the same events, similar to techniques in Rashomon and Cidade de Deus.

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    Bon Voyage (1944 film)

    Bon Voyage (1944 film)


    Bon Voyage
    Directed by Written by Story by Starring Alfred Hitchcock Angus MacPhail J.O.C. Orton Arthur Calder-Marshall John Blythe

    Distributed by Milestone Films Release date(s) 1944 Running time Country Language 26 minutes UK French

    Bon Voyage (1944) is a short French language propaganda film made by Alfred Hitchcock for the British Ministry of Information. Although the film is short (26 minutes), and generally only of interest to Hitchcock completists, it is interesting for its use of two radically different interpretations of the same events, a technique not unlike that used by Akira Kurosawa in Rashomon (1950) and Fernando Meirelles in Cidade de Deus (2002).

    Plot
    The story is told in flashback, once from the perspective of the protagonist, and then a second time with a deeper understanding that is provided by the intelligence officer in London. A Scotsman, a downed Royal Air Force air gunner who was previously a prisoner of war explains how he travelled with great difficulty through German-occupied France. He was accompanied most of the way by a companion who was another escaped prisoner of war, and they were both aided by various courageous Resistance workers. His companion gave him a letter to deliver once he reached London, supposedly a very personal and private letter. However, when we see the Intelligence officer's explanation of the same events, it becomes clear that the gunner's companion, who was supposedly helping him along, was in fact a Gestapo spy, who murdered several of the Resistance fighters and reported the rest to the authorities, and that the "personal letter" the gunner was going to deliver in London contains secret information that would have helped the enemy.

    Home media
    Milestone Films has released Bon Voyage, paired with other 1944 French language Hitchock short film Aventure malgache, on VHS and DVD.[1]

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    Bon Voyage (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036659/) at the Internet Movie Database

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    Bon Voyage (1944 film) Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=550841975 Contributors: A. Carty, Aiwendil42, Andrewa, Bensin, Big Smooth, Darev, Estrose, Fantr, GCarty, IllaZilla, Invertzoo, Irishguy, Jay-W, Lockley, Lugnuts, MarnetteD, Pegship, Sfnhltb, SplendidPerformance, Tjmayerinsf, Vukojarac, XJ784, XSG, Zzahos, Zzyzx11, 7 anonymous edits

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