Hidden Admiration

 

A film documenting the French admiration for their allied liberators. The film covers the stories of three veterans of Europe, accounts of three French citizens that witnessed the German occupation and Allied liberation as well as two families who have servicemen buried in France.  The final act of the film documents the families whose relatives are buried in Normandy.

 

The film includes interviews with three American veterans, three French citizens and two family members of soldiers buried in Normandy.

 

Hidden Admiration is a splendid documentary with an appropriate title, depicting the pleasant and bitter memories of a generation at war, trying to survive war’s hardships and vulnerabilities.

 

Technically a top-shelf piece. The archived film footage was carefully chosen to weave the narratives of “the greatest” generation into a tapestry of a familiar, bygone era.  Well done!

 

Colonel Larry L Weeks, USMC (ret)--