Hidden Forces (The Mysteries of Freemasonry Unveiled for the First Time on the Screen)

Forces Occultes (Hidden Forces, 1943) is one of the most extreme examples of Franco-German ideological collaboration to emerge from the Second World War. The young legislator Pierre Avenel—who at first believes in parliamentary democracy and the Masons but gradually discovers the “truth” that along with the Jews, they deliberately want to push France into a war against Germany. He is brutally attacked when he threatens to expose it. Following the pattern of two classic Nazi docu-dramas from 1933, Hitlerjunge Quex and Hans Westmar, Avenel is transformed from a crusader for justice into a martyr meant to inspire moral outrage and support for national socialism. One of the most extreme anti-semitic,and anti-masonic propaganda films ever made.

After the liberation of France, screenwriter Jean Marquès-Rivière, producer Robert Muzard and director Paul Riche (real name Jean Mamy) were all severely punished for their overt collaboration with the Vichy government and the Nazis. On November 25th 1945, Muzard, also the director of the popular magazine "Ciné-Mondial", was condemned to 3 year imprisonment. Jean Marquès-Rivière, who had fled France, was condemned to death, national degradation (loss of civil rights as a French citizen); all his assets were also confiscated. Director, Jean Mamy (a.k.a Paul Riche), a journalist for the French fascist 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.

"...This Film was based on Authentic Masonic Documents, in particular, the initiation ceremony was the one used in 1939 by French Lodges."