Review (and deep diving into): THE ASSASSINATION OF FATHER CHRISTMAS - L'Assassinat du père Noël (- A French NAZI KRIMI that cast a long, long shadow (1942)

Sometimes we stumble upon things that even we cannot believe. Some of the stories will make it into KRIMI! #2 and sometimes there is just no time to explore everything in the archives. So when we stumbled upon this 1942 film policier/krimi, we were deeply intrigued: A high-quality, highly entertaining French thriller, produced under Nazi occupation, with Nazi money, by a man who despised Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels. And all that by a company that strangely sounds familiar. And finally, we get the answer to the question that haunted us for a long time: Why did Horst Wendlandt's TOBIS distribution and production, which took over business from RIALTO and CONSTANTIN back in the early 1970s and featured the Gallic rooster? Well, here is the answer...

The amount of information gathered here is huge, and I think this is the first time it all comes together. To present it in an appropriate way and to give you a small Christmas gift, this is the first in our podcast series. The podcasts are created by AI but with a script written by us, and the information is supervised by us. Tell us what you think!

KRIMI! DEEP DIVE #1 THE ASSASSINATION OF FATHER CHRISTMAS