The article examines the presence of cinema in the Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Techniques (Paris, 1937), through the discussion of the inter-relationship between modern culture and political-ideological battles in the in-between wars period. Marked by architectural confront, symbolic expression of an imminent conflict, the exposition has also in the cinema an active participant of this clash. With an original statute, considered the expression of thinking and "dictatorial potency of the epoch", cinema is used to highlight the perspective of each country in regard to its place in the world.
film and history; film history; world fairs