Darkness

September 1944: A peculiar convoy is travelling eastwards from the South of France. Trucks full of files, cars full of ministers, and a five hundred man militia accompany the entire Vichy government, under Marshall Pétain, on its evacuation to the collapsing Deutsche Reich. Destination: Sigmaringen in south Germany. The Hohenzollern palace becomes a bizarre seat of government for the French collaborators. Among them was the doctor and author, Louis Ferdinand Céline, who had attained International fame in 1932 with his first novel, Journey to the End of the Night, and, who compromised himself later with dreadful, anti-Semitic pamphlets. Céline has described the Sigmaringen period in his delirious novel, Castle to Castle. The last months before the German "moment of truth", as they've never been portrayed before: Documented in delirious reality.