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A 1973 made-for-television adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. A group of men are detained at Vichy, France to await a racial inspection by the city's Nazi occupants.
Incident at Vichy (1973)
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Maxim D. Schrayer, Tablet Magazine wrote: ARTHUR MILLER’S FORGOTTEN MASTERPIECE Miller’s remarkable one-act play features a detention center in Vichy, in 1942, and a group of characters snatched up from the streets by the French police and awaiting an interview with one “Professor Hoffman,” a Nazi expert who is being logistically assisted by a morally deracinated Wehrmacht major. The purpose of the interview, we soon understand, is to ascertain the Jewishness of the detainees. They come from many walks of life and showcase different beliefs, from a fervent, deluding Marxism of the electrician Bayard to a complete surrender to fate by the silent old Orthodox Jew who clutches a pillow, to be disemboweled later in the play. Of all the detainees only two are apparently not Jews: a Romani man (“Gypsy&rdquo and an expatriate Austrian Prince, “von Berg,” who was picked up because he speaks French with a Germanic accent. Von Berg, whose characterization and background suggest he is gay, soon finds himself debating Nazism and paradigms of persecution with the play’s other characters, notably with Dr. Leduc, a Jewish doctor who shed blood for France in World War I. (There’s double irony in the choice of names: Austrian prince of origin versus Jewish duke of spirit.) Leduc harbors no illusions about the impending lot of the Jewish detainees, and he pushes von Berg to reflect on the role of personal sacrifice in preventing catastrophe—or at least in diminishing its proportions. I know very few other American plays where embers of European romanticism crack as loudly—and flames of the Russian novel of ideas burn as brightly—as they do in Miller’s Incident at Vichy. Cultural history hasn’t been kind to Incident at Vichy, either at home or abroad, and the more recent revivals have yet to undo decades of neglect. Prior to the start of a French national awakening to the truth about the country’s complicity in the murder of European Jews, Incident at Vichy had had a perilous time getting staged in France, despite Miller’s great popularity. The play’s international production history, especially in the former Eastern Bloc, wasn’t helped by Miller’s portrayal of its proletarian character Bayard, a French Jewish Communist. As Prince von Berg polemicizes with the electrician Bayard’s class-bound view of history, he states that “ninety-nine percent of the Nazis are working-class people!” After years of teaching and thinking about Shoah literature, I have come to value this play above all of Arthur Miller’s, including Death of a Salesman. For me Incident at Vichy is about the price of rescuing a victim and also about solidarity among members of the victimized minority groups.
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