Private: URIAGE

A documentary by Timothy Mirthil

Private: URIAGE recounts the story of Captain Pierre Dunoyer de Segonzac, a French officer who, during World War II, joined the Vichy regime to create the École Nationale des Cadres (National School for Executives) at the Château d’Uriage: a school designed to train young people rooted in tradition and focused on the “moral renewal” of the country. This man is my great-uncle. Through my investigative film, I explore the dilemmas of family heritage and the memory of collaboration, but I also discover that my ancestor, now known as “Commandant Hugues,” and his students ended up joining the Resistance in 1942 to fight Pétain and the German occupiers. In the name of an oath that profoundly influenced post-war France, the Oath of Uriage.