Missak Manouchian and the Red Poster(2024)

Missak Manouchian and the Red Poster Synopsis

In February 1944, in a courtyard at Fresnes Prison, the Germans staged a spectacle to stigmatize a group of communist resistance fighters—all foreigners and mostly Jewish—who had been arrested a few weeks earlier. The propaganda aimed to discredit these fighters, portraying them as terrorists and criminals, even though they had managed to carry out numerous attacks against the occupiers in Paris. The red poster, plastered in thousands of copies across the country, would immortalize them in legend. They were subsequently executed at Mont-Valérien, near Paris. Missak Manouchian, the Armenian who led these fighters, now embodies this group in the collective memory as he is enshrined in the Panthéon, on behalf of all his comrades, 80 years after their execution.

Missak Manouchian and the Red Poster (2024) is a documentary and history film directed by Hugues Nancy, released on February 20, 2024 with a runtime of 1h 36m. It stars Arthur Teboul. Viewers rate it 7.6 out of 10 across 5 ratings.