Summary
Remo Forlani: War and Peace in the Snefl Tavern
Remo Forlani, born in 1927 in Paris to an Italian father and a French mother, is not well known even in his native France. Depicting the famous French war and the consequences of that war refracted through the prism of an ordinary Parisian pub, he offered the French his truth about the Second World War and the world as it really is, thus making the fatal mistake of writers whose daily politics and audiences never forgive a lack of patriotism. Could laughter through tears and its cathartic effect appeal to the strategists and heroes of the famous war just twenty years earlier, in the First World War, the creators of the Mazino line and the legend of the impregnability of the French Chinese wall? For the vast majority of French people, public opinion and his unreasonable arrogance, Forlani's play will never be a masterpiece, and it truly is...
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