Cinema: Of Human Freedom

Tomorrow Is My Turn (Show Corporation), the work of France's André Cayatte (Justice Is Done, We Are All Murderers), illustrates in skillful melodrama some subtle reflections on apparent and actual freedom and bondage. The subject is discussed in terms of two Frenchmen, one an uneducated baker (Charles Aznavour), the other a sophisticated journalist (Georges Riviere), who go off to fight the Germans in 1939. The baker, lacking any desire to fight, goes because he is told to-his decision seems to be forced. The journalist, declining a deferment, goes because he chooses to ("I want to see how I'll behave when the...