L'Homme qui aurait pu être - Une enquête sur la vie et la mort de Herbert Norman

Collaborateurs : Flahive, Gerry | Kramer, John | Lore, Louise | Office national du film du Canada

Le 4 avril 1957, au Caire, Herbert Norman, ambassadeur du Canada en Égypte, se jette du haut d'un toit. Né au Japon en 1909 de missionnaires canadiens, Norman avait écrit une étude pionnière sur la société japonaise, qui allait devenir incontournable pour le Gouvernement d'occupation d'après-guerre et pour une nouvelle génération de dirigeants japonais. Mais, malgré tous ses talents et réalisations, une chose hantait le diplomate dans ses missions aux quatre coins du globe : on le soupçonnait d'intelligence avec les Soviétiques. En anglais avec sous-titres français.


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On April 4, 1957, Herbert Norman, the Canadian ambassador to Egypt, leapt to his death from a Cairo rooftop. During his remarkable life, Norman helped set the course of post-war Japan and played a key role during the Suez crisis. But with all of his talents and achievements, there was something haunting Herbert Norman and following him to every corner of the globe: the accusation that he was a Soviet spy. Director John Kramer's chilling and revealing documentary The Man Who Might Have Been: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Herbert Norman takes us back to a time when the Cold War was heating up and when the mere accusation of communist sympathies could destroy a man's career. Using declassified documents, interviews with key players and dramatizations filmed around the world, Kramer reconstructs the ordeal that Norman endured for seven long years, as a US Senate subcommittee relentlessly probed his past beliefs and current loyalties. During his meteoric rise and fall, Norman crossed paths with some of the greatest personalities of his time: Nobel-prize winning Canadian diplomat and politician Lester B. Pearson; FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, whose organization had an 800-page security file on Norman; General Douglas MacArthur, to whom Norman was a trusted aide; and charismatic Egyptian leader Gamel Abdul Nasser.

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