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Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique Carnival in Flanders is set during the longago war between 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 isnt 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 successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated or even taxed An awardwinner many times over Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany evidently Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the thenburgeoning Nazis