IMDb - "Dangerous Vichy propaganda"
[quote]Durant la Seconde guerre mondiale, il se place clairement du côté des Allemands. Son dernier film, le moyen métrage Forces occultes (1943) est une oeuvre de propagande, attaque virulente contre la Franc-Maçonnerie, le parlementarisme et les Juifs, dénonçant le prétendu complot judéo-maçonnique.
Pour avoir causé la mort de patriotes, il fut exécuté après la guerre.[/quote]
[quote]"Forces occultes" represents Vichy France's most determined effort at nazi propaganda.
The film depicts the rise of a young MP who, to further his career, joins the French Freemasons. He subsequently starts to believe that along with the Jews, they deliberately want to push France into a war against Germany.
This is, of course, pure odious Vichy propaganda...
At the Liberation, screenwriter Jean Marquès-Rivière, producer Robert Muzard and director Paul Riche (real name Jean Mamy) were all severely punished for their overt collabaration with Vichy and the Nazis. On November 25th 1945, Muzard, also the director of the popular magazine "Ciné-Mondial" was condemned to 3 years imprisonment. Jean Marquès-Rivière, who had fled France, was condemned to death, to National degradation (loss civil rights as a French citizen); all his assets were also confiscated. Director, Jean Mamy (a.k.a Paul Riche), a journalist at the French nazi newspaper "Au pilori" and a fierce anti-semite was also condemned to death. He was shot by a firing squad at the Montrouge fortress on March 29th 1949.[/quote]
Not my rip, found on the net, in French with no subs.
It's curious that the lead actress in Gance's "La fin du monde" is also starring here, in a movie
casting the issue of world-government in exactly the opposite light.
Also, there are some eyes-wide-shutesque masonic ritual sequences
If this silliness really is still dangerous 50 years later, all is lost
[avi)Forces Occultes.avi 
