Henri Cartier-Bresson's famous film “Le Retour” ('Reunion' in English), a documentary on the repatriation of prisoners of war and deportees to France.. In 1940, during World War II, Frenchman Cartier-Bresson was taken prisoner by the Germans. He escaped in 1943 and participated the following year in a French underground photographic unit assigned to record the German occupation and retreat. In 1945 he made this film for the U.S. Office of War Information, Le Retour, which dealt with the return to France of released prisoners of war and deportees.
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