ABSTRACT
Wrongful behavior and beliefs of a directly political nature comprise a major, and enormously consequential, realm of deviance, and the cinema has narrated notable exemplars of this nature, drawn from both history and fiction. Political deviance is one of the most important locomotives of history; it is a major means by which humans achieve change, progressive or otherwise, because it frequently “gets things done,” though some of these “things” may sometimes be unpleasant, even horrifying, while some others can result in beneficial and progressive changes. Motion picture studios released a spate of politically oriented films in the late 20-teens and early 2020s that did terribly at the box office. The historical time frame of the drama begins, in a flashback, in May 1940, as the German forces are poised to invade Paris.
