Titled La Rafle,or The Roundup, the film takes a look at one of the darkest moments of France's World War II- era collaboration with Nazi Germany: the July,1942 arrest of 13,000 Parisian Jews.
VOA: standard.2010.04.10
The darkestmoments of war, occupation, mass killings, ethnic cleansing, and autocratic leadership and crony capitalism were all there.
Even at his darkestmoments, he displayed a wry sense of humor that inevitably made the listener feel less gloomy, and one can only hope did the same for him.