Good Times Wonderful Times (1966) Lionel Rogosin (EN-FR sub)

“Good Times, Wonderful Times” is Rogosin’s plea for humanity against war and fascism. The film took two years of travel to twelve countries and permission to use their war archives before it was released in 1964, at the height of the Vietnam War. In it, mundane chatter at a London cocktail party is interspersed with graphic wartime footage, satirizing the tragic irresponsibility of the modern man. It won the Cine Forum Award as the official British entry for feature film at the 1965 Venice film festival. At a cocktail party in London, the guests discuss sex, religion, politics, and war. The conversation provides an opportunity for the introduction of flashbacks to the Warsaw ghetto, Nazi concentration camps, the training of the Hitler Youth, the siege of Stalingrad, and other World War II combat situations.