tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2305571058310227787.post6643234063356434726..comments2024-03-24T22:17:35.958-04:00Comments on Great but Forgotten: The Confession (L’aveu)Chuck Rothmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10903706448043066253noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2305571058310227787.post-65504551005488595802019-02-18T07:59:33.737-05:002019-02-18T07:59:33.737-05:00If memory serves, the defendant whose pants fall d...If memory serves, the defendant whose pants fall down was the one-time Communist Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia, and the "wave of laughter" rolled through the whole courtroom, including the judges (some of whom had probably worked with and for him). Also if memory serves, some of the targets of the purge had been in exile in France when the war broke out and had served in the French Resistance, of which the French Communist Party - and its international comrades - was a major component. I vaguely remember that it was their stellar record in France that made them political figures in their own right, and not just creature of the Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin, and therefore totally dependent on him. This line of speculation might have been discussed in the film, or I just read about it around the time I watched it.cka2ndhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06341987426158889966noreply@blogger.com