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A Man of His Time

Emmanuel Marre

The banality of evil is brilliantly exposed in this thought-provoking and singular portrait of a mediocre yet ambitious bureaucrat in Nazi-occupied France.
Runtime
158 min
Country
France-Belgium
Language
French
Year
2026
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Henri Marre (a mesmerising Swann Arlaud) arrives in Vichy, the heart of the Nazi-collaborating Pétain regime, in September 1940. Penniless and some distance from his family, he seizes an opportunity to make his mark. Drawing on personal history, Emmanuel Marre’s riveting drama is an intimate, formally ambitious and resolutely contemporary film – a chilling account of moral and political corruption.

Laure Bonville

Content warning

Contains racist attitudes and language.