Darius Milhaud

and the defence of innocence which Pagnol and Carné showed under attack from irresistible forces, the cinema of the interwar period, thoughtful and technically adventurous, was a Golden Age. Classical musicians (Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric, Darius Milhaud) contributed film scores and the professional scriptwriter came into his own: Charles Spaak, Henri Jeanson and Jacques Prévert, Carné’s partner for ten years. The war years When France fell in June 1940, film production, torpid during the drôle