Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war betwn the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn't terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So suessful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany evidently, Gols caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spk were drawing deliberate parallels betwn the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.
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