Abstract
In cooperation with Jean-Pierre Azéma, Frédéric Krivine conceived of the television series, Un village français, as a way to present the lives of a diversity of individuals in particular historical situations during and immediately following the German Occupation of France. This article examines the motivations and choices of collaborators, resisters and fence-sitters, terms used to make sense of and to judge individuals at the time and by viewers today. In line with the recent work of academic historians, the achievement of the series is to encourage the French public to understand and to interpret these concepts in fruitful new ways by rethinking the personal and the political, and their relationship in the lives of individuals during the Occupation and at Liberation.
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