Documentary gives voice to some of the thousands of those who tried to leave Pétain's France from Marseille. Jews, anti-fascists, German intellectuals or artists like the photographer Germaine Krull, French like Claude Lévi-Strauss, stateless people like Jean Malaquais.
With great attention to detail, sometimes a little too much in fact, the elegant documentary by Jérôme Prieur retraces their efforts to escape the European shipwreck. To see Sunday at 10:40 p.m. ET on CNN, go to CNN.com/sentinels of Oblivion or click here for more information. The film is based on the memoirs of Jean-Claude Prévert, who lived in Marseille during the Second World War. The film was directed by Jérémy Prieur, who is also the director of Sentinels Of Oblivion and The Man Who Knew Too Much about the Holocaust.